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041			_aENG
082			_a631.5233 _bAGA
100			_a Aga, Aniket
245			_aGenetically modified democracy : _btransgenic crops in contemporary India / _cAniket Aga
260			_aHyderabad : _bOrient Blackswan; _c2022
300			_axvi, 309 pages : _billustrations ; _c23 cm.
440			_aYale agrarian studies.
520			_aGenetically modified or transgenic crops are controversial across the world. Advocates see such crops as crucial to feeding the world's growing population; critics oppose them for pushing farmers deeper into ecological and economic distress, and for shoring up the power of agribusinesses. India leads the world in terms of the intensity of democratic engagement with transgenic crops. Anthropologist Aniket Aga excavates the genealogy of conflicts of interest and disputes over truth that animate the ongoing debate in India around the commercial release of transgenic food crops. The debate may well transform agriculture and food irreversibly in a country already witness to widespread agrarian distress, and over 300,000 suicides by farmers in the last two decades. Aga illustrates how state, science, and agrarian capitalism interact in novel ways to transform how democracy is lived and understood, and sheds light on the dynamics of technological change in populous, unequal polities.-- Source other than the Library of Congress.
650			_aTransgenic plants _zIndia.
650			_aTransgenic plants _xPolitical aspects _zIndia.
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