Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India's Modernity

摘要

This book is about small technologies in India. In particular, it focuses on several factory-produced goods that became embedded in the everyday lives of Indians. Through these goods, David Arnold narrates the story of Indian modernity and the making of its various Utopias. He identifies the period between 1905 and 1914 as India's "technological watershed" (p. 20), marked by the influx of various new machines, such as sewing machines, gramophones, typewriters, bicycles, cameras, clocks and watches, and the beginning of industrialization and the rise of the Swadeshi movement, which fostered a new technological awareness in India.