Midnight's Machines A Political History of Technology in India

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.. But a lesser-known political project began on 15 August 1947: the Indian state's undertaking to influence what the citizen...See More