Midnight's machines : a political history of technology in India

By:

Sukumar, Arun Mohan

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Gurgaon Penguin Books 2019Description: 236pISBN:

9780670091096

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

609.54 SUK

Summary: "Named among “The Best Books of 2020” by Bloomberg Shortlisted for New India Foundation’s Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize 2020 Every Prime Minister of Independent India has guided, if not personally overseen, one prized portfolio: technology. If, in the early years, Nehru and his scientist-advisors retained an iron grip on it, subsequent governments created a bureaucracy that managed everything from the country’s crown jewels – its nuclear and space programmes – to solar stoves and mechanized bullock carts."

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Plaksha University Library	Technology	609.54 SUK (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		000125

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"Named among “The Best Books of 2020” by Bloomberg
Shortlisted for New India Foundation’s Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize 2020
Every Prime Minister of Independent India has guided, if not personally overseen, one prized portfolio: technology. If, in the early years, Nehru and his scientist-advisors retained an iron grip on it, subsequent governments created a bureaucracy that managed everything from the country’s crown jewels – its nuclear and space programmes – to solar stoves and mechanized bullock carts."

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