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Critique the victory narratives of Green Revolution in the context of Indian society.

  • UPSC 2023
  • 10 marks
  • Rural and Agrarian Transformation in India

The Green Revolution is India's most repeated success story: a country living "ship to mouth" on imported wheat in 1966 became a foodgrain exporter. A victory narrative is itself a social fact: it decides which outcome counts as success and whose experience goes uncounted. Judged by output the claim holds; judged by distribution, ecology and…

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  • The narrative at its strongest
  • Selectivity was the design, not the accident
  • The bill the narrative does not itemise
  • Conclusion

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