Digital India and The Poor examines how the poor are evoked in
contemporary Indian political discourse. It studies the ways in which
the disadvantaged are accounted for in the increasingly digitised
political economy, commercial and public policy, media, and academic
research. This book: Interrogates the category of the poor in India
and how they have come to be classified in economic and policy
documents over the past few decades Explores the influential digital
education technology ‘experiments’ conducted in Indian slums from
the late 1990s, now popularly known as the ‘hole-in-the-wall
experiments’ Discusses financial inclusion initiatives,
predominantly as they converged between 2014 and 2017, such as the Jan
Dhan Yojana, the Aadhaar Project, and the banknote demonetisation
Presents an in-depth study of the bearing of technology on domestic
employment in India The book will be of great interest to scholars and
researchers of South Asian studies, politics, political science and
sociology, technology studies, linguistics, and development studies.
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ISBN
9781000069051
Publisert
2020
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Vendor
Routledge India
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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