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Everyday Technology (Hardcover)
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Everyday Technology (Hardcover)
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In 1909 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on his way back to South Africa
from London, wrote his now celebrated tract "Hind Swaraj," laying
out his vision for the future of India and famously rejecting the
technological innovations of Western civilization. Despite his
protestations, Western technology endured and helped to make India
one of the leading economies in our globalized world. Few would
question the dominant role that technology plays in modern life,
but to fully understand how India first advanced into technological
modernity, argues David Arnold, we must consider the technology of
the everyday. "Everyday Technology" is a pioneering account of how
small machines and consumer goods that originated in Europe and
North America became objects of everyday use in India in the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rather than investigate
"big" technologies such as railways and irrigation projects, Arnold
examines the assimilation and appropriation of bicycles, rice
mills, sewing machines, and typewriters in India, and follows their
impact on the ways in which people worked and traveled, the clothes
they wore, and the kind of food they ate. But the effects of these
machines were not limited to the daily rituals of Indian society,
and Arnold demonstrates how such small-scale technologies became
integral to new ways of thinking about class, race, and gender, as
well as about the politics of colonial rule and Indian nationhood.
Arnold's fascinating book offers new perspectives on the
globalization of modern technologies and shows us that to truly
understand what modernity became, we need to look at the everyday
experiences of people in all walks of life, taking stock of how
they repurposed small technologies to reinvent their world and
themselves.
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