Everyday Technology

Arnold, David,

Everyday Technology : machines and the making of India's modernity / David Arnold - Chicago, London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013. - 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm - Science.culture. .

India's technological imaginary --
Modernizing goods --
Technology, race, and gender --
Swadeshi machines --
Technology and well-being --
Everyday technology and the modern state --
The god of small things

An account of how small machines and consumer goods that originated in Europe and North America became objects of everyday use in India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It examines the assimilation and appropriation of bicycles, rice mills, sewing machines, and typewriters in India

9780226269375

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Social Sciences
Social Processes
Social conditions.
Technology -- India -- History.
Technology transfer


Technology.

303.4830 ARN

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