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AbstractFrom the point of view of the oppressed and the exploited in an iniquitous political economic order, technological change conceals more than what it reveals. The concealing of technology could be the ideological bias or intentions of its promoters or protagonists which is more often concealed than revealed in social theories and analysis of technological change. Using the poison gas explosion at the Union Carbide pesticide plant at Bhopal as a case in point, I will argue that this technological massacre of a city population can be read only as the concealing of the "real" nature of the technology of the so-called "Green Revolution" in India's agricultural modernization programme.

Argues that the state of Kerala is a prototype of sustainable development because of improvements in the quality of life, environmental stability, relative social and economic equality, and decline in political strife. Some focus on indigenous and democratic development and mobilization.

Using the Green Revolution in Indian agriculture as the empirical basis, this article argues for the epistemic significance of technology as a form of knowledge. The concept of technology as knowledge evolved out of the interactive model of the relationship between science and technology. The Green Revolution is generally referred to as the change in agricultural practice experienced in parts of the Third World in recent decades as a result of the introduction of mainly the high-yielding varieties of seeds (HYVs). Using this empirical example, the article proposes that technological change may be conceptualized within an epistemological framework of technological knowledge.