M. S. Swaminathan: the man who fed India

By:

Jayakumar, Priyambada

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi: HarperCollins; c2025.Description: xlvi, 276pISBN:

9789369890231

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

630.92 JAY

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
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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.

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