Midnight's Machines

by Arun Mohan Sukumar

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067009109X
• ISBN13: 9780670091096
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: India Viking
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.4"