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Webs of History: Information, Communication & Technology from Early to Post-Colonial India

Webs of History: Information, Communication & Technology from Early to Post-Colonial India


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This volume collects essays relating to the interface of information, communication, and technology in India -- from early period to the present. The twenty-first century is widely recognised as the era of information and communication revolution, which in turn has been primarily attributed to the spectacular progress in technology. However, such a revolutionary and momentous change has its roots in history, culture and the society in which it takes place. The volume meticulously tracks down the process in a multi-verse site like India by weaving the past and the present, treating them in ruptures as well as continuities. While revealing that technological innovations and practices date back to pre-modern times, the volume also challenges the conventional wisdom that such interface is a gift of modernity. The contributors to the volume, scholars with diverse disciplinary backgrounds, offer innovative approaches in re-engaging themselves with a theme that is as much a part of our heritage as it is a current relevance. The issues and questions posed here while enriching the understanding of administrators, social workers, journalists and lay readers will also lead to further academic research. The volume will be essential reading for students and teaches of history, mainstream social sciences, cultural and gender studies. Published in association with Indian History Congress, New Delhi Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata.

Table of Contents:
Preface; Introduction; Dynamics of Information & Communication Technology in the Harappan Period; Information, Exchange & Administration: Case Studies from Early India; Storage & Retrieval of Information: Literacy & Communication in Pre-modern Kerala; Forms of Audio Visual Recording in Medieval Bengal; Communication & Commerce: The Armenian World Trade in the Seventeenth Century; The Dutch East India Companys Communication Network over Land & Sea; Primitive Newspapers: The Eighteenth Century Akhbarat; M/s Khemkaran Mansaram: The Worlds First Ever News Selling Agency during the Eighteenth Century Maratha Rule; The Introduction of Semaphore Telegraphy in Colonial India; The Railways in the Colonial Communications System of India: A Reappraisal; State Intelligence Network & Surveillance in Colonial India; Confronting the Colonial Communication Order: Gandhiji, the Green Pamphlet & Reuter; History of Communication for Development; On Forgetting History: Information & Communication Technology & the Colonisation of Politics in Post-Colonial India; Gender, History & the Recovery of Knowledge with Information & Communication Technologies; Enemies of an Information Society through the Ages.

About the Author :
Amiya Kumar Bagchi is Professor of economics, Director, institute of Development Studies Kolkata and first Chancellor of Tripura Central University.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9788173046131
  • Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
  • Publisher Imprint: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
  • Height: 225 mm
  • No of Pages: 298
  • Sub Title: Information, Communication & Technology from Early to Post-Colonial India
  • Width: 145 mm
  • ISBN-10: 8173046131
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2005
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 546 gr


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