Imperial Science, the Organic Movement and the Path to Shangri-La, 1900-1969
Imperial Science, the Organic Movement and the Path to Shangri-La, 1900-1969 investigates scientific studies undertaken in British India by Robert McCarrison and Albert Howard in the 1920s, and how this research was later adapted in Britain and the USA. It examines how imperial agendas and colonial...
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| description | Imperial Science, the Organic Movement and the Path to Shangri-La, 1900-1969 investigates scientific studies undertaken in British India by Robert McCarrison and Albert Howard in the 1920s, and how this research was later adapted in Britain and the USA. It examines how imperial agendas and colonial stereotyping shaped McCarrison’s dietary laboratory experiments and Howard’s development of the Indore Composting Process. Ashok Malhotra reveals how Indian scientists and Indian Princes contributed to the research culture in the institutes that were founded by these two British scientists, and in so doing, he draws attention to figures whose contributions have previously been overlooked by scholars. Malhotra demonstrates how McCarrison’s and Howard’s research was interpreted by British and US-based organic farming advocates to advocate for agricultural methods which returned organic matter to the soil and rejected chemical fertilisers. It discusses how organic advocates on both sides of the Atlantic deployed the Hunzas, a community in British India (later Pakistan), as an example of a ‘tribe’ whose vigour could be ascribed to their farming techniques and diets. The narrative concludes by demonstrating how US travel writers in the 1950s and 1960s represented Hunza as a Shangri-La – a paradise whose inhabitants lived prolonged lives in blissful contentment. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1740132026-03-19T14:37:27Z Imperial Science, the Organic Movement and the Path to Shangri-La, 1900-1969 Malhotra, Ashok Environment Nutrition Wellbeing Health Science Colonialism Agriculture Travel Hunza British India Soil-science Class Race Eugenics Holism Paradise thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialism thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history Imperial Science, the Organic Movement and the Path to Shangri-La, 1900-1969 investigates scientific studies undertaken in British India by Robert McCarrison and Albert Howard in the 1920s, and how this research was later adapted in Britain and the USA. It examines how imperial agendas and colonial stereotyping shaped McCarrison’s dietary laboratory experiments and Howard’s development of the Indore Composting Process. Ashok Malhotra reveals how Indian scientists and Indian Princes contributed to the research culture in the institutes that were founded by these two British scientists, and in so doing, he draws attention to figures whose contributions have previously been overlooked by scholars. Malhotra demonstrates how McCarrison’s and Howard’s research was interpreted by British and US-based organic farming advocates to advocate for agricultural methods which returned organic matter to the soil and rejected chemical fertilisers. It discusses how organic advocates on both sides of the Atlantic deployed the Hunzas, a community in British India (later Pakistan), as an example of a ‘tribe’ whose vigour could be ascribed to their farming techniques and diets. The narrative concludes by demonstrating how US travel writers in the 1950s and 1960s represented Hunza as a Shangri-La – a paradise whose inhabitants lived prolonged lives in blissful contentment. 2026-03-19T14:37:25Z 2026-03-19T14:37:25Z 2026-03-17T10:52:51Z 2026 book ONIX_20260316T122835_9781806550579_2 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/111903 9781806550579 9781806550586 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/174013 eng open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/111903/1/9781806550579.pdf UCL Press UCL Press 29b9f0a3-1b0d-4bdd-99d7-b4d3432d7fcc 9781806550579 9781806550586 UCL Press London open access |
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| title | Imperial Science, the Organic Movement and the Path to Shangri-La, 1900-1969 |
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