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Mathur, Chandana (2002) Twice Poisoned Bhopal: Notes on the Continuing Aftermath of the World’s Worst Industrial Disaster. International Labor and Working-Class History, 62. pp. 69-75. ISSN 0147-5479
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Abstract
In one horrifying night and through the long misery of nearly eighteen years of
injustice that have followed it, the city of Bhopal in India can be said to have
experienced the head-on impact of world historical and political economic
processes. In 1969, Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) set up a plant to manufacture
the pesticide Sevin in Bhopal, with the permission and, indeed, the encouragement
of the Indian government. This was the heyday of the Green Revolution,
introduced in India in the mid-1960s and based on HYV (high-yielding
variety) seeds, chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and vastly increased irrigation.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | Twice Poisoned; Bhopal; Aftermath; World’s Worst Industrial Disaster; |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Anthropology |
| Item ID: | 8377 |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Chandana Mathur |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Jun 2017 15:36 |
| Journal or Publication Title: | International Labor and Working-Class History |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Refereed: | Yes |
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| URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/8377 |
| Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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