Breaking New Ground

Green Revolutions Reconsidered

The Rural World of Contemporary Punjab

Himmat Singh

Oxford University Press

xi+302 pages/Rs 595

The Green Revolution is one of most thoroughly researched and documented socio-economic movements. This is partly because it is a recent event for which authentic data and records are available. The media coverage of the Green Revolution as it unfolded has also been quite graphic. Any addition to this literature, therefore, generates scant interest because it often has very little to offer by way of new information and argumentation.

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