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Everyday Technology : machines and the making of India's modernity / David Arnold

By: Arnold, DavidContributor(s): Arnold, DavidMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: :Atlantic Publishers & Distributors | :7/22 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi Series: Science.culturePublication details: Chicago, London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013Description: 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN: 9780226269375Subject(s): Social Sciences | Social Processes | Social conditions | Technology -- India -- History | Technology transferGenre/Form: Technology.DDC classification: 303.4830 ARN

Contents:

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

Summary: 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

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	SNU LIBRARY	303.4830 ARN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan	26158
Books	SNU LIBRARY	303.4830 ARN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	26159
Books	SNU LIBRARY	303.4830 ARN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	26160

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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

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