Information Infrastructures in India: The Long View (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780192857736)

This book explores the past and present of information infrastructures in India. Grounded in infrastructure theory, it explores the historical continuities between information infrastructures in colonial and post-colonial India and the compulsions of information infrastructures in contemporary India. This volume highlights the roles played by private and public sector entities in shaping information infrastructures in India, the political economy of growth in this sector and the challenges faced by the State in regulating information platforms that are also information infrastructures. It includes separate chapters on oceanic cable infrastructures that account for more than 90 per cent of data traffic between India and the rest of the world and the political economy of India's satellite program. Taking the 'long view', it argues that the provisionings of information infrastructures are by no means straight forward, that they are always expressions that are shaped by internal and external contestations, by ideological ends and business imperatives, the needs of consumers/citizens and the State, that there is a politics of infrastructure that needs to be accounted for, and that there always are winners and losers in large infrastructural projects such as Digital India.

Author: Pradip Ninan Thomas
ISBN-10: 0192857738
ISBN-13: 9780192857736
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 08/11/2022
Pages: 182
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.04h x 5.74w x 0.63d