<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 17pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: maroon; "><b><i>MIT Seminar on Environmental and<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 17pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: maroon; "><b><i>Agricultural History<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: rgb(0, 48, 137); "><b><i> <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 0.25in; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><i>“The Triumph of Wheat: Defining Agriculture in the Development Decade”</i></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="margin-right: 9pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 9pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 51, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px; font-weight: bold; ">Nick Cullather</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 9pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 51, 0); ">Associate Professor of History<b>, </b></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(0, 51, 0); ">Indiana University<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 30.6pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: 150%; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 27pt; text-align: justify; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Before dwarf wheat became the emblem of a “green revolution,” a different plant, jute, symbolized the future of rural India.</span></font><span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> </span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Jute was the miracle crop of the 1950s.</span></font><span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> </span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">It catalyzed new industries, fuelled a dynamic village handicrafts sector, and amassed the bulk of India’s export earnings.</span></font><span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> </span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Modern peasants grew jute.</span></font><span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> </span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">But modernity has an unsteady meaning when it comes to agriculture, and wheat’s victory over jute reveals just how radically the ambitions of development policy could shift, and how cold war rivalries influenced what Indians grew and ate.</span></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 27pt; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; color: rgb(8, 100, 0); "> <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 0.25in; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: maroon; "><b>Friday, October 24, 2008<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: maroon; "><b>2:30 to 4:30 pm<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: maroon; "><b>Building E51 Room 095<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: maroon; "><b>Corner of Wadsworth and Amherst Streets, Cambridge<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Century Schoolbook'; color: navy; "><b> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-right: 30.6pt; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial; ">Sponsored by MIT’s History Faculty and the Program in Science, Technology, and Society. For more information or to be put on the mailing list, please contact Margo Collett at <a href="mailto:mcollet@mit.edu">mcollett@mit.edu</a>. </span></p></div></body></html>