The Politics of Digital India - Between Local Compulsions and Transnational Pressures (Hardcover)

This book locates Digital India in context. It deals with the many ways in which Digital India is shaped by local pressures and political expediencies as much as by global pressures, namely from one of India's strongest allies, the USA. However, this relationship with the USA is by no means straightforward and this book illustrates the highs and lows of this relationship. As importantly, this book deals with the larger Indian reality in which the digital is but one sector, albeit an increasingly important one. There are other sectors including agriculture and the informal sectors on which many million Indians depend on their livelihoods. These sectors too are becoming exposed to the digital and this has resulted in the presence of multiple digital spheres in India. This book deals with the ambivalent Indian State that is on the one hand attempting to control its citizens through some of these digital spheres while also investing in public access projects such as Digital India and resisting the power of Big Brother, namely the USA. This is an important contribution to understanding Digital India precisely because it attempts to account for some of its complexities.

General

Imprint:	OUP India
Country of origin:	India
Series:	Media Dynamics in South Asia
Release date:	October 2019
Authors:	Pradip Ninan Thomas (Associate Professor)
Series editors:	Adrian Athique (Associate Professor) • Vibodh Parthasarathi (Associate Professor) • S. V. Srinivas (Professor)
Dimensions:	222 x 148 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	262
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-949462-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Comparative politics Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Media, information & communication industries > Publishing industry
LSN:	0-19-949462-2
Barcode:	9780199494620

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