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A Moral Technology - Electrification as Political Ritual in New Delhi (Hardcover)
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A Moral Technology - Electrification as Political Ritual in New Delhi (Hardcover)
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In India over the past century, electrification has meant many
things: it has been a colonial gift of modern technology, a tool of
national integration and political communication, and a means of
gauging the country's participation in globalization. Electric
lights have marked out places of power, and massive infrastructures
have been installed in hopes of realizing political promises. In A
Moral Technology, the grids and wires of an urban public utility
are revealed to be not only material goods but also objects of
intense moral concern. Leo Coleman offers a distinctive
anthropological approach to electrification in New Delhi as more
than just an economic or industrial process, or a "gridding" of
social and political relations. It may be understood instead as a
ritual action that has formed modern urban communities and people's
sense of citizenship, and structured debates over state power and
political legitimacy.Coleman explores three historical and
ethnographic case studies from the founding of New Delhi as an
imperial capital city, to its reshaping as a national capital for
post-independence India, up to its recent emergence as a
contemporary global city. These case studies closely describe
technological politics, rituals, and legal reforms at key moments
of political change in India, and together they support Coleman's
argument that ritual performances, moral judgments, and
technological installations combine to shape modern state power,
civic life, and political community.
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