Kusum Nair

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Kusum Nair (1919–1993) was an Indian journalist, and writer on agricultural policy from the cultural side.[1] Her work challenged "agricultural fundamentalism".[2] 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.[3]

She was born Kusum Prasad in Etah.[4] In 1936 at an age of 16, Kusum Nair was married to Pran Nath Nayyar who was serving in the Indian Navy. In 1941 she graduated from University of Nagpur with a bachelor's degree in philosophy.

He husband Pran Nath Nayyar had later taken part in the Naval Mutiny of 1946[5]

Works

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.[6]

  • 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 Defence 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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