Becoming organic : : nature and agriculture in the Indian Himalaya / / Shaila Seshia Galvin.

• Superior document: Yale agrarian studies series
• VerfasserIn: Galvin, Shaila Seshia,
• Place / Publishing House: New Haven : : Yale University Press,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Yale agrarian studies series.; Yale scholarship online.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 17 b-w illus.
• Notes: Also issued in print: 2021.

A rich, original study of the social and bureaucratic life of organic quality that challenges assumptions of what organic means Tracing the social and bureaucratic life of organic quality, this book yields new understandings of this fraught concept. Shaila Seshia Galvin examines certified organic agriculture in India's central Himalayas, revealing how organic is less a material property of land or its produce than a quality produced in discursive, regulatory, and affective registers. 'Becoming Organic' is a nuanced account of development practice in rural India, as it has unfolded through complex relationships forged among state authorities, private corporations, and new agrarian intermediaries.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Remaking the Agrarian on a Himalayan Frontier -- ONE. Fertile Ground -- TWO. The Limits of Transparency and the Farming of Trust -- THREE. Becoming Basmati -- FOUR. Market Imaginaries and the Horizons of Aspiration -- FIVE. Exhibiting Organic Uttarakhand -- Epilogue: Promises of Transformation -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index