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Pacific Affairs· 2026Q1

Computing in the Age of Decolonization: India’s Lost Technological Revolution

Aditya Balasubramanian

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This book chronicles India's ambitious, yet ultimately unsuccessful, post-independence drive for technological self-sufficiency in computing.

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Dwaipayan Banerjee’s excellent Computing in the Age of Decolonization is a deeply original, well-researched, and attractively written history of India’s ultimately thwarted attempt to become self-s...

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Field: Computer Science Applications

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