Instructor Class Description

Time Schedule:

• Winter Quarter 2013

Sareeta Bipin Amrute
SISSA 490
Seattle Campus

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Class description

Technology in Modern India

This course investigates the role technology has played in Indian social and political life since Independence. General readings will be used as a springboard at intervals during the course to discuss theoretical approaches to the study of technology. The role technology has played in the history of India from the late colonial period through independence, as exemplified in the writings of Gandhi and Nehru, will inaugurate class discussion. The rest of the quarter will be devoted to case studies of the use of technology in India from 1947 to the present day. Questioned addressed in class will include: how has the use of technology shaped the Indian nation-state? What is the meaning of technology in a post-colonial context? What is the relationship between technology and democratic politics in India?

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