TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coleman,Leo
TI  - Moral technology : electrification as political ritual in New Delhi 
SN  - 9781501707520
AV  - HD9685.I43 N4915 2017
U1  - 333.7932095456 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Electrification
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - India
KW  - New Delhi
KW  - Electric utilities
KW  - Technology and state
KW  - Technology
KW  - Anthropological aspects
KW  - Political science
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-222) and index; 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -