Arnold, David, 1946- author. aut

Everyday technology : machines and the making of India's modernity / David Arnold.

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
©2013

223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Science.culture

"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"-- Back cover.

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Technology transfer India.
Technology India History.
Transfert de technologie Inde.
Technologie Inde Histoire.
15.75 history of Asia.
50.11 history of technology.
Technology History. India.
Social conditions
Technology
Technology transfer
Technologietransfer
Technical innovation.
Daily life.
Renewal.
Tekniköverföring.
Teknik historia.
Sociala förhållanden.
India Social conditions.
Inde Conditions sociales.
India
Indien

History

Johns, Adrian, publisher director.
Science.culture.

Machines and the making of India's modernity

Location: Library main 283160
Call No.: BIB 221190
Status: Available