Everyday Technology
Subtitle: Machines and the Making of India's Modernity
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780226922027
Subjects: Technology transfer; Technology, history, india; India, social conditions
Description: A pioneering account of how small machines and consumer goods from Europe and North America became objects of everyday use in India in the course of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This text examines how bicycles, rice mills, sewing machines and typewriters shaped Indian society.