Everyday technology : machines and the making of India's modernity
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2013
- 223 p. ; ill., 22 cm.
- science culture .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In 1909 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on his way back to South Africa from London, wrote his now celebrated tract Hind Swaraj, laying out his vision for the future of India and famously rejecting the technological innovations of Western civilization. Despite his protestations, Western technology endured and helped to make India one of the leading economies in our globalized world. Few would question the dominant role that technology plays in modern life, but to fully understand how India first advanced into technological modernity, argues David Arnold, we must consider the technology.
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Technology transfer Technology History India Social conditions Industrialisation Small-scale technology Technological modernity Automobiles Bicycles Flour mills Gramophones Oil pressing Railroads Radios Rice mills Sewing machines; Swadeshi goods Typewriters World War I,II