Looking for an Expert on the Agrarian History of South Asia

David Ludden:

• David Ludden, New Cambridge History of India: An Agrarian History of South Asia
• David Ludden, _India and South Asia: A Short History
• David Hardiman reviews David Ludden, The New Cambridge History of India. Volume 4, Part 4, An Agrarian History of South Asia http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28200012%29105%3A5%3C1718%3ATNCHOI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23
• Marcia Frost reviews reviews David Ludden, The New Cambridge History of India. Volume 4, Part 4, An Agrarian History of South Asia http://eh.net/bookreviews/library/0250

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[wood turtle]

Notes on tropical farming might come in handy very soon.

[anne]

http://www.thenation.com/docprem.mhtml?i=20071015&s=grandin

October 15, 2007

Chávez: 'Galbraithiano'
By Greg Grandin

Last year, the New York Times reported that Hugo Chávez, in his speech before the United Nations--the one in which he called George W. Bush the Devil and urged Americans to read Noam Chomsky--expressed regret that he hadn't had a chance to meet the linguist before he died. A call to Mr. Chomsky's house, the Times writer quipped, found him very much alive. The Times, though, had to issue a quick correction when, upon review of the original Spanish, it became clear that Chávez was referring not to Chomsky but rather to John Kenneth Galbraith, who had indeed passed away a few months before.

There is something more than a little ironic about this incident, where the press, in a rush to ridicule the controversial Hugo Chávez, lost John Kenneth Galbraith in translation, for it is exactly the Harvard economist's brand of New Deal social democracy, itself long expunged from public discussion, that would allow for a more honest consideration not just of Chavismo but the broader Latin American left of which it is a vital part....

[reader]

I remember the brou-ha-ha.

Oddly tho' -
I just read Chavez' address in its entirety (at http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0920-22.htm) and he did not seem to mention any regret for not meeting anyone in particular?!

[anne]

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE3DE1230F935A35753C1A9609C8B63

October 6, 2006

Editors' Note

An article on about criticism of President Bush at the United Nations by President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran reported that Mr. Chávez praised a book by Noam Chomsky, the linguist and social critic. It reported that later, at a news conference, Mr. Chávez said that he regretted not having met Mr. Chomsky before he died. The article noted that in fact, Mr. Chomsky is alive. The assertion that Mr. Chávez had made this misstatement was repeated in a Times interview with Mr. Chomsky the next day.

In fact, what Mr. Chávez said was, ''I am an avid reader of Noam Chomsky, as I am of an American professor who died some time ago.'' Two sentences later Mr. Chávez named John Kenneth Galbraith, the Harvard economist who died last April, calling both him and Mr. Chomsky great intellectual figures.

Mr. Chávez was speaking in Spanish at the news conference, but the simultaneous English translation by the United Nations left out the reference to Mr. Galbraith and made it sound as if the man who died was Mr. Chomsky.

Readers pointed out the error in e-mails to The Times soon after the first article was published. Reporters reviewed the recordings of the news conference in English and Spanish, but not carefully enough to detect the discrepancy, until after the Venezuelan government complained publicly on Wednesday.

Editors and reporters should have been more thorough earlier in checking the accuracy of the simultaneous translation.

[anne]

What is especially interesting and encouraging is that John Kenneth Galbarith's writing on social democracy should resonate in a Latin America of which we are most critical.

[Gray]

Anne, did you notice that the issue here is South Asia, NOT South America? Could you pls stop going off topic with every single posting you make?! This is really becoming a nuissance.
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