Moral technology electrification as political ritual in New Delhi

By:

Coleman, Leo

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Cornell University Press 2017Description: xviii, 232 p. 23 cmISBN:

9781501707520

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Additional physical formats: Online version:: Moral technologyDDC classification:

333.7932095456 23 CO-M

LOC classification:

HD9685.I43 N4915 2017

Contents:

Introduction : the Electricity Acts -- The machinery of government -- Ritual center and divided city -- The life blood of the nation -- Broadcast mantras -- The life of property -- A model colony -- Conclusion : the art of a free society.

Summary: "This book is about the cultural politics of electrification in India's capital city, and the role of technological infrastructures in shaping contemporary political imaginations in India--imaginations of the state, and also at a local level, of urban interdependence and solidarity. Drawing on both historical and ethnographic case-studies, this book examines colonial electrical installations in Delhi, nationalist legislation for nationwide electrification, and electricity privatization and neighborhood political organization in the early 2000s"--

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Print	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus Main Library	General Books	333.7932095456 CO-M (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		135743

Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-222) and index.

"This book is about the cultural politics of electrification in India's capital city, and the role of technological infrastructures in shaping contemporary political imaginations in India--imaginations of the state, and also at a local level, of urban interdependence and solidarity. Drawing on both historical and ethnographic case-studies, this book examines colonial electrical installations in Delhi, nationalist legislation for nationwide electrification, and electricity privatization and neighborhood political organization in the early 2000s"--

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