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Chopra, Rohit.

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Mediated visions: Technology and nationalism in India from the colonial era to the Internet age.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Mediated visions: Technology and nationalism in India from the colonial era to the Internet age./
Author:	Chopra, Rohit.
Description:	369 p.
Notes:	Advisers: Cynthia Patton; Allen Tullos.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-09A.
Subject:	History of Science. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3234008
ISBN:	9780542875922

Mediated visions: Technology and nationalism in India from the colonial era to the Internet age.
Chopra, Rohit.

Mediated visions: Technology and nationalism in India from the colonial era to the Internet age. - 369 p.

Advisers: Cynthia Patton; Allen Tullos.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Emory University, 2006.

This dissertation explores the relationship between technology and nationalism in India from 1750 till the present, with a focus on the use of the Internet by global Indian communities for the promotion of Hindu nationalist ideologies, a phenomenon that I term "technocultural Hindu nationalism." Since the introduction of Western science and technology under colonial rule in the eighteenth century, science and technology have been used as instruments of mapping, controlling, and transforming Indian society. Equally, scientific and technological expertise have been authorized as attributes of modern Indian selfhood; as markers, at once, of a universality and an essential Indianness. State and society have granted the holders of technological qualifications economic opportunities, educational advantages, and social status. Even as the relationship between technology and nationalism has been marked by continuities and discontinuities over the passage of time, it has endured as fundamentally constitutive of Indian modernity.

ISBN: 9780542875922Subjects--Topical Terms:

896972
History of Science.

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520 $a This interdisciplinary project combines qualitative and quantitative methodologies in tracking the long historical negotiation between varied, even oppositional, discourses of technology and nationalism from the colonial era till the Internet age. Chapter 1 introduces the phenomenon of technocultural Hindu nationalism and situates it historically. Chapter 2 explicates the theoretical and methodological framework employed in the dissertation. Covering 1750 to 1905, Chapter 3 assesses the relationship between technology and anticolonial nationalism. Spanning 1905 to 1991, Chapter 4 offers a comparative assessment of understandings of the nation-state and technology proposed by Gandhi, Nehru, and Savarkar. The chapter also examines the role of technology in independent India. Chapter 5 follows the relationship between technology and nationalism since 1991, with reference to the liberalization of the Indian economy in 1991 and the resurgence of Hindu nationalism in the 1990s. The chapter also includes an analysis of the complexities of technocultural Hindu nationalism. Chapter 6 presents a comparative statistical mapping of the distribution of key themes, such as scientificity, globality, and universality, across Hindu, Sikh, and Kashmiri nationalist websites. In the final chapter of the dissertation, I reflect on the possibilities offered by the Internet for reimagining Indian identities in light of the historical associations between nationalism and technology.
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