Uncoded : A Technological History Of Independent India

Uncoded : A Technological History Of Independent India ‘Rewires how we think of nation-building’ Charles Assisi, technology columnist at Hindustan Times From factories to farms, battlefields to boardrooms, clinics to classrooms—in the years since Independence, modern technology has swept through all corners of Indian life. But back in 1947, this seemed impossible. Low literacy, poverty and lack of expertise meant that newly independent India was unable to afford the mighty technologies of World