the man who fed India Jayakumar, Priyambada creator text New Delhi HarperCollins c2025 monographic eng

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xlvi, 276p. 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. Includes bibliographical and reference index. Agricultural scientist Biography India Green revolution India 630.92 JAY 9789369890231 260519 20260519162027.0