Set in the context of a sophisticated critique of the privileged epistemological position oachieved by modern science, whereby it both aspires to provide technological solutions for social and political problems while at the same time disclaiming responsibility for the new problems which it creates in its wake, the author looks to the future in an analysis of the new project to apply the latest Gene Revolution technology to India and warns of the further environmental and social damage which will ensue. Introduction 11(19) Science and Politics in the Green Revolution 19(42) The Green Revolution and the Conquest of Nature 25(21) The Green Revolution and the Control of Society 46(15) `Miracle Seeds' and the destruction of Genetic Diversity 61(42) How the Green Revolution makes Unfair Comparisons 68(4) The Myth of the High Yielding Variety 72(6) Genetic Uniformity and the Creation of New Pests 78(25) Chemical Fertilizers and Soil Fertility 103(18) Voracious Varieties 104(10) Diseased and Dying Soils 114(2) The Return to Organic Inputs 116(5) Intensive Irrigation, Large Dams and Water Conflicts 121(50) Thirsty Seeds 121(21) Large Dams and the Centralisation of Political Power 142(8) Inter-state Water Conflicts and the Elusive Search for Equity 150(21) The Political and Cultural Costs of the Green Revolution 171(24) The Economic Costs: A narrow and shortlived prosperity 176(7) Communalising the Farmers' Protests 183(6) Development, Social Disintegration and Violence 189(6) Pepsico For Peace? The Ecological and Political Risks of the Biotechnology Revolution 195(36) Pepsico for Peace? 198(1) Seeds of Ecological Vulnerability 199(10) Seeds and Dependency 209(9) Seeds of Insecurity, Seeds of Violence 218(13) The Seed and the Spinning Wheel: The Political Ecology of Technological Change 231(5) Colonisation and the Spinning Wheel 236(5) The Colonisation of the Seed 241(10) Biotechnology Development and Biodiversity Conservation 251(6) Patents, Intellectual Property and the Politics of Knowledge 257