Abstract:

This talk reconsiders the progress of India’s ‘Green Revolution’, specifically agricultural development in the 1970s, within the context of the two oil crises. How did India achieve a ‘Green Revolution’, and what factors contributed to India’s agricultural development in the 1970s? How did India manage to recover from this second economic turmoil in the early 1980s? As this presentation will show, the oil crises of the 1970s and its aftermath in the 1980s and the early 1990s laid the groundwork for the restructuring of the international economic order and the so-called economic miracle in Asia.

Speaker:

Shigeru AKITA is Professor of Global History, Osaka University, Japan. He is doing ‘Creating Global History from Asian perspective’ through global economic history. His major publications include, (ed.) Oil Crises of the 1970s and the Transformation of International Order: Economy, Development and Aid in Asia and Africa (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023).

Organizers:
Prof. Dominic Sachsenmaier, University of Göttingen
Prof. Ravi Ahuja (Göttingen)