Development

Between hunger and growth: pursuing rural development in Partition’s aftermath, 1947–1957

Author(s): 
Jack Loveridge
Publisher/Sponsor: 
Taylor and Francis Online
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09584935.2017.1292213

Built from the ground up by three thousand Sikh and Hindu refugees in the aftermath of the Partition of India in 1947, the town of Nilokheri in East Punjab emerged as an unlikely centre of agricultural education and scientific exchange. With support from the Ford Foundation, Indian and American scientists and development planners worked through the 1950s to transform the refugee township into a model of agricultural innovation and community development.

International Migration and Development in South Asia

Md Mizanur Rahman
Tan Tai Yong
Routledge
2015

The Industrial Development of Bengal, 1900-1939

A. Z. M. Iftikhar-ul-Awwal
A. Z. M. Iftikhar-ul-Awwal (Copyright), 1982
1982