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Midnight’s Machines: A Political History of Technology in India audiobook
- By: Arun Mohan Sukumar
- Narrator: Gaurav Marwahi
- Category: History & Theory, Political Science
- Length: 9 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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Midnight’s Machines: A Political History of Technology in India Audiobook Summary
Every Prime Minister of independent India has guided, if not personally overseen, one prized portfolio: technology. If, in the early years, Nehru and his scientist-advisors retained an iron grip on it, subsequent governments created a bureaucracy that managed everything from the country’s crown jewels-its nuclear and space programmes-to solar stoves and mechanized bullock carts.
But a lesser-known political project began on 15 August 1947: the Indian state’s undertaking to influence what the citizens thought about technology and its place in society. Beneath its soaring rhetoric on the virtues or vices of technology, the state buried a grim reality: India’s inability to develop it at home. The political class sent contradictory signals to the general public. On the one hand, they were asked to develop a scientific temper, on the other, to be wary of becoming enslaved to technology; to be thrilled by the spectacle of a space launch while embracing jugaad, frugal innovation, and the art of ‘thinking small’. To mask its failure at building computers, the Indian state decried them in the seventies as expensive, job-guzzling machines. When it urged citizens to welcome them the next decade, the government was, unsurprisingly, met with fierce resistance. From Jawaharlal Nehru to Narendra Modi, India’s political leadership has tried its best to modernize the nation through technology, but on its own terms and with little success.
In this engaging and panoramic history spanning the arc of modern India from the post-War years to present day, Arun Mohan Sukumar gives us the long view with a reasoned, occasionally provocative standpoint, using a lens that’s wide enough for the frame it encompasses. With compelling arguments drawn from archival public records and open-source reportage, he unearths the reasons why India embraced or rejected new technologies, giving us a new way to understand and appreciate the individual moments that brought the country into the twenty-first century.
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Midnight’s Machines: A Political History of Technology in India Full Details
| Narrator | Gaurav Marwahi |
| Length | 9 hours 52 minutes |
| Author | Arun Mohan Sukumar |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 28, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780143498018 |
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The publisher of the Midnight’s Machines: A Political History of Technology in India is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: political science, government, geopolitics, political philosophy, world politics, political science books, political books, politics, international politics, philosophy, technology, business, leadership, management, economics, sociology, war, society, public policy, sustainability, work, nature, law, education, psychology, internet, social, foreign policy, economy, marxism, anthropology, finance, conspiracies, social science, conspiracy, socialism, social justice, evolution, self help, business books, 21st century, money, physics, Political Science, History & Theory The BISAC Subject Code is History & Theory, Political Science
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The publisher of the Midnight’s Machines: A Political History of Technology in India is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780143498018.
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