Taming the Tarai: Pushing Back the Jungle in Northern India, 1958-1960From 1958 1960, the Bennett family lived on the 16,000 acre Tarai State Farm in northern India, a swampy flatland on the lower slopes of the Himalayan foothills. As part of the Green Revolution, the U. S. Department of State had hired Francis Bennett as an agricultural engineer to move to the Farm and help it prepare for the founding the first land grant university in India. Within a month of living on the Tarai State Farm, however, it was clear there