# Event Details - **Event Name**: Prakash Kumar - The History and the Present of the Green Revolution - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 24 Mar, 2026 at 04:30 pm – Tue, 24 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm - **Event Description**: Examines the long historical past that paved the path to the green revolution in India.About this EventThe resource-intensive, extractive model of agriculture that India embraced in the 1960s helped the nation tide over food scarcity and yet ambivalences towards such agrarian transitions to productivity have remained. Critics have accused the green revolution of inflicting socio-economic and ecological injustices. This talk examines the long historical past that paved the path to the green revolution and was folded into its history and its present. As the green revolution carved its place in technocratic celebrations of pulling India out of food scarcity, the prior history of efforts to improve yield, the alternate beliefs in reforms and community participation, and of colonial era developments were forgotten. The argument contends that colonial legacies and a twentieth-century history of partition and incoming refugees from Pakistan, Nehruvian ideals of community participation, decolonizing perspectives of land reforms, and post-independence reconstruction were rolled into this momentous agrarian transformation. This contingent history of India's green revolution is often hidden by a dominant technocratic perspective that speaks of moments, magical silver bullets, and the wondrous efficacy of steps taken by a postcolonial bureaucracy.Event SpeakerPrakash Kumar, Associate Professor of History at Pennsylvania State UniversityEvent InformationFree and open to the public; registration required. Please email scienceandsociety@columbia.edu with any questions.Hosted by the Center for Science and Society at Columbia University. Supported by the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy at Columbia University. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/new-york/prakash-kumar-the-history-and-the-present-of-the-green-revolution/100001982521361761 - **Event Categories**: nonprofit - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: New York - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: Knox Hall (Room 207) - **lat**: 40.8119608 - **long**: -73.9617949 - **full address**: Knox Hall (Room 207), 606 West 122nd Street, New York, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Prakash Kumar - The History and the Present of the Green Revolution - **Image URL**: https://dyn-image.allevents.in/generate-image?v=4&title=Prakash+Kumar+-+The+History+and+the+Present+of+the+Green+Revolution&date=Tue%2C+24+Mar%2C+2026+at+04%3A30+pm&bg=2 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Prakash Kumar - The History and the Present of the Green Revolution being held? - **A:** Prakash Kumar - The History and the Present of the Green Revolution takes place on Tue, 24 Mar, 2026 at 04:30 pm to Tue, 24 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm at Knox Hall (Room 207), 606 West 122nd Street, New York, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Prakash Kumar - The History and the Present of the Green Revolution? - **A:** Prakash Kumar - The History and the Present of the Green Revolution is organized by The Center for Science and Society. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Prakash Kumar - The History and the Present of the Green Revolution", "image": "https://dyn-image.allevents.in/generate-image?v=4&title=Prakash+Kumar+-+The+History+and+the+Present+of+the+Green+Revolution&date=Tue%2C+24+Mar%2C+2026+at+04%3A30+pm&bg=2", "startDate": "2026-03-24", "endDate": "2026-03-24", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/prakash-kumar-the-history-and-the-present-of-the-green-revolution/100001982521361761", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Knox Hall (Room 207)", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "606 West 122nd Street", "postalCode": "10027", "addressLocality": "New York", "addressRegion": "NY", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "40.8119608", "longitude": "-73.9617949" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Examines the long historical past that paved the path to the green revolution in India.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-07", "availabilityEnds": "2026-03-24", "validFrom": "2026-04-07", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/prakash-kumar-the-history-and-the-present-of-the-green-revolution/100001982521361761" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-07", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-07", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/prakash-kumar-the-history-and-the-present-of-the-green-revolution/100001982521361761", "price": 0, "name": "In-Person Columbia Attendees" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-07", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-07", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/prakash-kumar-the-history-and-the-present-of-the-green-revolution/100001982521361761", "price": 0, "name": "In-Person Public Attendees" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "The Center for Science and Society", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/the-center-for-science-and-society/22833203", "description": "The Center for Science and Society at Columbia Universitybrings together a wide variety of scholars and practitioners in the human, social, and natural sciences from around Columbia’s campus and the New York City metropolitan area to support interdisciplinary research, teaching, and outreach about the roles of science, technology, medicine, and public health in past and present societies. 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