- Kusum Nair
Kusum Nair (1919-1993) was an Indian journalist, and writer on agricultural policy from the cultural side [ [http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~dludden/bibessay.htm The Agrarian History of South Asia: A Bibliographic Essay ] ] . Her work challenged "agricultural fundamentalism" [Donald E. Voth, "An Overview of International Development Perspectives in History: Focus on Agricultural and Rural Development" [http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/123456789/20287/1/sp040005.pdf (PDF)] , p. 24.] . "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 [ [http://ags.ou.edu/~bwallach/documents/Losing%20Asia%20-%20Ch%204.pdf (PDF)] , p. 4.] .
Life
She was born Kusum Prasad in
Etah ,Uttar Pradesh [ [http://www.north-trek.com/genealogy/database/d123.htm#P2228 Hewitt's of White Oak and Collateral Families ] ] . Her earlier works dealt with Indian politics, and theBombay Naval Mutiny of 1946. ACongress Socialist Party member, she was involved in the mutiny's planning [ [http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/sangat/British.htm Pakistani Women In A Changing Society ] ] .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)References
*John Adams, "Obituary: Kusum Nair (1919-1993)", The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 53, No. 3 (Aug., 1994), pp. 1046-1048
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* [http://www.britannica.com/eb/author?id=2105 As "Britannica" contributor]
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