M. S. Swaminathan: the man who fed India
Jayakumar, Priyambada
M. S. Swaminathan: the man who fed India - New Delhi: HarperCollins; c2025. - xlvi, 276p.
Includes bibliographical and reference index.
This remarkable and moving biography captures the life and times of this extraordinary hero, tracing his life from his childhood in Kumbakonam and his early introduction to agriculture and his eventual association with Nobel laureate, Norman Borlaug, which ultimately led to the Green Revolution. The book also takes an attentive look at all the various roles he deftly juggled in his long and illustrious career–that of a conservationist, an ardent feminist, a technocrat, a lifelong Gandhian, a philosopher, a diplomat and a celebrated institution builder–both in India and abroad.
9789369890231
Agricultural scientist--Biography--India
Green revolution--India
630.92 JAY
M. S. Swaminathan: the man who fed India - New Delhi: HarperCollins; c2025. - xlvi, 276p.
Includes bibliographical and reference index.
This remarkable and moving biography captures the life and times of this extraordinary hero, tracing his life from his childhood in Kumbakonam and his early introduction to agriculture and his eventual association with Nobel laureate, Norman Borlaug, which ultimately led to the Green Revolution. The book also takes an attentive look at all the various roles he deftly juggled in his long and illustrious career–that of a conservationist, an ardent feminist, a technocrat, a lifelong Gandhian, a philosopher, a diplomat and a celebrated institution builder–both in India and abroad.
9789369890231
Agricultural scientist--Biography--India
Green revolution--India
630.92 JAY