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03429aam a2200469 i 4500 001 472A7DD60CD411EEAAE9666853ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230617010022 008 191206s2019 ii b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019346723 020 $a 9780199097852 020 $a 0199097852 020 $a 0199494622 020 $a 9780199494620 035 $a (OCoLC)1121097818 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d DKAGE $d ERASA $d OCLCF $d DLC $d YDX $d UPM $d CHVBK $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d CLU $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a lcode 043 $a a-ii--- 050 00 $a HM851 $b .T5284 2019 082 04 $a 302.2310954 $2 23 100 1 $a Thomas, Pradip, $e author. 245 14 $a The politics of digital India : $b between local compulsions and transnational pressures / $c Pradip Ninan Thomas. 264 1 $a New Delhi, India : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2019. 300 $a xvi, 231 pages ; $c 23 cm 490 1 $a Media dynamics in South Asia 530 $a Also available as an e-book. 520 8 $a 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. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Machine generated contents note: Section I The Control State -- 1.The Expansion of Politics as Control: Surveillance in India -- 2.Leisure, Surveillance, and the Private Sector in India -- 3.Software Patent Manoeuvres -- Section II The Sovereign/Ambivalent State? -- 4.Digital (Transgenic) Seed and Its Copy -- 5.The Politics and Geopolitics of Internet Governance -- 6.The WIPO Treaty for the Visually Impaired as a Double Movement. 650 0 $a Digital media $z India. 650 0 $a Information technology $x Political aspects $z India. 650 0 $a Information technology $x Economic aspects $z India. 650 0 $a Digital communication $x Political aspects $z India. 650 0 $a Digital communication $x Economic aspects $z India. 650 7 $a Digital media. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00893716 650 7 $a Information technology $x Economic aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00973097 650 7 $a Information technology $x Political aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00973119 651 7 $a India. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210276 830 0 $a Media dynamics in South Asia. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117020042.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=472A7DD60CD411EEAAE9666853ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search