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Technologies of knowledge : rethinking the archive in modern South Asia

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Rethinking the archive in modern South Asia

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"This book traces the role of technology in shaping, curating, disseminating and archiving knowledge and life in South Asia. It focuses on empirical studies of transformative social processes unleashed by technological intervention in colonial and postcolonial contexts, which have changed our everyday lives and created new sites of domination and resistance, new archives of history. Unravelling technology as an indicator of South Asia's encounter with modernity, the essays in the volume interrogate how technology was witnessed in the production of culture, historicizing, preservation of the past, and maintenance of the heritage sites. In addition to examining the critical role of creative and commercial networks in establishing language and script preference, the volume also scans the significant contribution of technology in bringing a digital revolution that changed the face of tourism, changed its relationship with society and its sociological approaches. The volume also highlights how technology in the colonial context was used as an element of imperial domination and investigates technology as a mode of knowledge production. Revealing the inevitable and recognizing role of technology in shaping our past, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of science and technology studies, digital humanities, South Asian studies, modern history, tourism and architecture"-- Provided by publisher.

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Understanding and Representing Colonial India / Aryendra Chakravartty and Samiparna Samanta -- The Making of a City : Impetuosity and Interpolations / Shrimoyee Basu Thakurta -- From Purity to Hygiene : Bhadralok Domesticity and the Restructuring of Bengali Household / Suparna Chakraborty -- Knowledge Technology Contested : Cholera, Commerce, and Quarantine in Nineteenth-Century India / Arabinda Samanta -- Preparing the 'Veterinary Baboo' : The Pupils and Pedagogy at Bengal Veterinary College 1893-1920 / Aritri Chakrabarti -- The White Man As A Burden on History : A Centre Of Oriental Culture, 1942-1947 / Dharitri Bhattacharya -- Alternative Technologies : A Different Road to Development / Kaushalya Bajpayee.

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