The Politics of Digital India: Between Local Compulsions and Transnational Pressures 1st Edition Pradip Ninan Thomas

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• ISBN-10: 0199097852
• ISBN-13: 9780199097852
• Author: Pradip Ninan Thomas 

Transforming India into a digital state has been an objective of successive governments in India. However, the digital, by its very nature, is a capricious, multi-dimensional entity. Its operationalization across multiple sectors in India has highlighted the fact that the digital compact with publics in India is a two-edged sword. On the one hand, devices such as mobile phones have enabled access and efficiencies, and on the other, they have increased the scope for surveillance capitalism and the expansion of governmentality. The digital is at the same time a resource, commodity, and process that is absolutely fundamental to most if not all productive forces across multiple sectors.

Table contents:

ection I: Introduction

1) The Politics of Digital India: Between Local Compulsions and Transnational Pressures

Section II: The Control State

2) The Expansion of Politics as Control: Surveillance in India

3) Leisure, Surveillance and the Private Sector in India

4) Software Patent Manoeuvres

Section III: The Sovereign/Ambivalent State?

5) Digital (Transgenic) Seed and its Copy

6) The Contested Nature of Internet Governance

7) The WIPO Treaty for the Visually Impaired as a Double MovementSection IV: Concluding Chapter

8) Digital India and the Politics and Geopolitics of

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