TY - BOOK AU - Sukumar, Arun Mohan TI - Midnight's machines : : a political history of technology in India SN - 9780670091096 U1 - 609.54 PY - 2019/// CY - Gurgaon PB - Penguin Books KW - Technology--Political aspects KW - India KW - Technology N1 - https://penguin.co.in/book/midnights-machines N2 - "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." ER -