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020			_a9780199494620
082			_a302.2310954 _bTHO-P
100			_aThomas, Pradip
245			_aPolitics of Digital India _b: Between Local Compulsions and Transnational Pressures
260			_aUSA _bOxford University Press _c2020
300			_a262,pp
504			_aInclude Index
520			_aThis book locates Digital India in context. It deals with the many ways in which Digital India is shaped by local pressures and political expediencies as much as by global pressures, namely from one of India's strongest allies, the USA. However, this relationship with the USA is by no means straightforward and this book illustrates the highs and lows of this relationship. As importantly, this book deals with the larger Indian reality in which the digital is but one sector, albeit an increasingly important one. There are other sectors including agriculture and the informal sectors on which many million Indians depend on their livelihoods. These sectors too are becoming exposed to the digital and this has resulted in the presence of multiple digital spheres in India. This book deals with the ambivalent Indian State that is on the one hand attempting to control its citizens through some of these digital spheres while also investing in public access projects such as Digital India and resisting the power of Big Brother, namely the USA. This is an important contribution to understanding Digital India precisely because it attempts to account for some of its complexities.
650			_aInformation technology _vDigital media _vEconomic aspects _vPolitical aspects _zIndia
700			_aAdrian, Athique
700			_aParthasarthi, Vibodh
700			_aSrinivas, S.V.
942			_2ddc _cBK