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Name
  
Kusum Nair


Role
  
Journalist

Kusum Nair Blossoms in the Dust by Kusum Nair AbeBooks

Died
  
1993, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States

Books
  
Blossoms in the Dust, the Human Factor in Indian Development

Kusum Nair (1919–1993) was an Indian journalist, and writer on agricultural policy from the cultural side. Her work challenged "agricultural fundamentalism". Blossoms in the Dust, a title taken from a 1941 film, was based on a journal from 1958, when she spent a year in Indian villages.

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Life

She was born Kusum Prasad in Etah, Uttar Pradesh. Her early work dealt with Indian politics, and the Bombay Naval Mutiny of 1946. A Congress Socialist Party member, she was involved in the mutiny's planning.

Works

  • The Army of Occupation (1946)
  • Japan's Soviet Held Prisoners (1951)
  • Blossoms in the Dust: The Human Factor in Indian Development (1961)
  • The Lonely Furrow: Farming in the United States, Japan and India (1969)
  • Three Bowls of Rice; India and Japan: Century of Effort (1973)
  • In Defense of the Irrational Peasant: Indian Agriculture After the Green Revolution (1979)
  • Transforming Traditionally: Land and Labour Use in Asia and Africa (1983)

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