Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India's Modernity

by David Arnold

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022626937X
• ISBN13: 9780226269375
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"