Chaudhary Ajit Singh: The Technocrat of Agrarian Politics is an extraordinary biography that thoroughly examines the life path of one of the most prominent politicians in the history of our country. The book reveals the many-sided and eventful lif...

Chaudhary Ajit Singh: The Technocrat of Agrarian Politics is an extraordinary biography that thoroughly examines the life path of one of the most prominent politicians in the history of our country. The book reveals the many-sided and eventful life of Chaudhary Ajit Singh, India’s most powerful farmer leader, from the tail-end of his glorious days in Western Uttar Pradesh to his successful career in the IT industry and politician’s career in the USA.Following in the footsteps of his father – the former Prime Minister of India and farmer leader Chaudhary Charan Singh – the biographer managed to effectively merge the traditional values and principles of the agrarian community with a new view of modernization. Chaudhary Ajit Singh’s biography narrates about the creation of the new party, Rashtriya Lok Dal, his fruitful work in the parliamentary system, and his membership in the Union Cabinet, as well as the active promotion of the idea of Harit Pradesh ’s statehood.The book demonstrates the rich experience of a politician who is the inheritor of the best agrarian traditions and, at the same time, opened the way to modernization for many people of the region.