LEADER 05540nam 22007575 450 001 9910874675303321 005 20240721125225.0 010 $a9789819715602 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-97-1560-2 035 $a(CKB)33388430400041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31575182 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31575182 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-97-1560-2 035 $a(EXLCZ)9933388430400041 100 $a20240721d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCritical Insights on Colonial Modes of Seeing Cattle in India (1850?1980) $eTracing the Pre-history of Green and White Revolutions /$fby Himanshu Upadhyaya 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Nature Singapore :$cImprint: Springer,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (247 pages) 225 1 $aAsia in Transition,$x2364-8260 ;$v27 311 08$a9789819715596 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. Revisiting ?Surplus Cattle? and ?Sacred Cattle? Discourse: Why a History of Cattle in India needs to move beyond this framing? -- 3. Famines, Cattle Diseases and Cattle Mortalities: History of Civil Veterinary Departments in India -- 4. Breeding Bovine Animals for Better Productivity: High Modernist Mission -- 5. Writing the Pre-History of Amul: Emergence of Milk Markets and Dairy Cooperatives in Late Colonial India -- 6. Discourse on Dairy Development, Scientific Instruction and Emergence of Technocracy -- 7. Chasing Productivity Dreams: Intensification in Crop and Cattle Development in Post-Colonial India -- 8. Replicating Anand Pattern Milk Cooperatives: Studying the Operation Flood -- 9. After the Operation Flood: Studying Transformations in Bovine Holding Patterns -- 10. Conclusion -- 11. Endnotes. 330 $aThis book traces the contours of the symbiotic relationship between crop cultivation and cattle rearing in India by reading against the grain of several official accounts from the late colonial period to the 1980s. It also skillfully unpacks the multiple cultural expressions that revolve around cattle in India and the wider subcontinent to show how this domestic animal has greatly impacted political discourses in South Asia from colonial times, into the postcolonial period. The author begins by demonstrating the dependence between the nomadic cattle breeder and the settled cultivator, at the nexus of land-livestock-agriculture, as indicated in the writings of Sir Albert Howard, who espoused some of the most sophisticated ideas on integration, holism, and mixed farming in an era when agricultural research was marked by increasing specialisation and compartmentalisation. The book springboards with the views of colonial experts who worked at imperial science institutions but passionately voiced dissenting opinions due to their emotional investment in the lives of Indian peasants, of whom Howard was a leading light. The book presents Howard and his contemporaries? writings to then engage contemporary debates surrounding organic agriculture and climate change, tracing the path out of the treadmill of industrial agriculture and factory farming. In doing so, the book shows how, historically, animal rearing has been critically linked to livelihood strategies in the Indian subcontinent. At once a dispassionate reflection on the role played by cattle and water buffaloes in not just supporting farm operations in the agro-pastoral landscape, but also in contributing to millions of livelihoods in sustainable ways while fulfilling the animal protein in the Indian diet, the book presents contemporary lessons on development perspectives relating to sustainable and holistic agriculture. A rich and sweeping treatment of this aspect of environmental history in India that tackles the transformations prompted by the arrival of veterinary medicine, veterinary education and notions of scientific livestock management, the book is a rare read for historians, environmentalists, agriculturalists, development practitioners, and animal studies scholars with a particular interest in South Asia. 410 0$aAsia in Transition,$x2364-8260 ;$v27 606 $aAsia$xHistory 606 $aAnimal welfare$xMoral and ethical aspects 606 $aPhilosophy 606 $aPostcolonialism 606 $aAgriculture 606 $aApplied ethics 606 $aImperialism 606 $aAnimal culture 606 $aHistory of South Asia 606 $aAnimal Ethics 606 $aPostcolonial Philosophy 606 $aAgricultural Ethics 606 $aImperialism and Colonialism 606 $aAnimal Science 615 0$aAsia$xHistory. 615 0$aAnimal welfare$xMoral and ethical aspects. 615 0$aPhilosophy. 615 0$aPostcolonialism. 615 0$aAgriculture. 615 0$aApplied ethics. 615 0$aImperialism. 615 0$aAnimal culture. 615 14$aHistory of South Asia. 615 24$aAnimal Ethics. 615 24$aPostcolonial Philosophy. 615 24$aAgricultural Ethics. 615 24$aImperialism and Colonialism. 615 24$aAnimal Science. 676 $a338.176200954 700 $aUpadhyaya$b Himanshu$01763286 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910874675303321 996 $aCritical Insights on Colonial Modes of Seeing Cattle in India (1850?1980)$94246385 997 $aUNINA