This chapter traces the emergence and implementation of Green Revolution paradigms in India. In contrast to the international historians who see actors in the United States forcing the adoption of a new strategy centered around fertilizers, seeds, and irrigation, this chapter argues that Green Revolution paradigms were operative in India from independence and earlier. The notion that the targeted concentration of inputs would lead to greater productivity, even at the cost of social equity, existed in the agricultural sector well before the early 1960s. This chapter traces these paradigms through the operations of research and extension institutions in India and locates their ascendance in the late 1950s, as the lure of agrarian reform faded. It then examines the complex interaction of national and international events that led to the adoption of Green Revolution strategies between 1964 and 1967 – including the role of a new Food Minister, C. Subramaniam, the transformative effects of the Bihar Famine, and Lyndon Johnson's “short tether policy." The chapter outlines the rise of agrarian discontent in the wake of these transformations, hinting at what the rise of inequity as an acceptable political idiom meant for Indian welfare, and the nation’s “food problem” as a whole.