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082 _a609.54
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100 _aSukumar, Arun Mohan
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245 0 _aMidnight's machines :
_ba political history of technology in India
260 _aGurgaon
_bPenguin Books
_c2019
300 _a236p.
500 _ahttps://penguin.co.in/book/midnights-machines/
520 _a"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."
650 _aTechnology--Political aspects
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650 _aIndia
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650 _aTechnology
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942 _cBK
999 _c5542
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