Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India's Modernity (science.culture)
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (506 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 022626937X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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“Everyday Technology organizes an enormous amount of unfamiliar detail on a hitherto largely neglected subject, reinforced with copious statistics and illustrated with some appealing historical and contemporary images. It is enlivened by apt quotations from novels and films of the period.”
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 of the everyday. Everyday Technology is a pioneering 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. 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. But the effects of these machines were not limited to the daily rituals of Indian soc
Technology seeps as well as floods Stephen C. Baer Interesting clear discussion of sewing machines, bicycles and typewriters in India. A wake up book for those interested in technology. How do these all important aids change society by seeping through as the railroad and telegraph dramatically flood?Included are references to Gandhi, an interesting leader for us to recognize.. different perspective. a good read. Amazon Customer Very well written. Unusual insights into the small things leading to major developments in India. Reads well!