Pradip Thomas is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland. His previous books include Empire and Post-Empire Telecommunications in India: A History (OUP, 2019).

Information Infrastructures in India untangles the tangled histories of infrastructure in the country, from the colonial railway and the telegraph to the post-colonial modernization projects, including satellite broadcasting and the much-hyped Digital India initiatives. Drawing from an impressive array of theoretical frameworks from critical media studies, techno-policy studies, and anthropological perspectives on the state, Pradip Thomas, one of the leading scholars of the political economy of media and communication in India, urges the reader to understand the contemporary digital approach to nation-building in India as the latest phase in the evolution of information infrastructures that are intricately tied up with neoliberal economics, the surveillance state, and exclusionary social hierarchies. Vinod Pavarala, Senior Professor of Communication & UNESCO Chair on Community Media, University of Hyderabad, India

Pradip Thomas is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland. His previous books include Empire and Post-Empire Telecommunications in India: A History (OUP, 2019).

Information Infrastructures in India untangles the tangled histories of infrastructure in the country, from the colonial railway and the telegraph to the post-colonial modernization projects, including satellite broadcasting and the much-hyped Digital India initiatives. Drawing from an impressive array of theoretical frameworks from critical media studies, techno-policy studies, and anthropological perspectives on the state, Pradip Thomas, one of the leading scholars of the political economy of media and communication in India, urges the reader to understand the contemporary digital approach to nation-building in India as the latest phase in the evolution of information infrastructures that are intricately tied up with neoliberal economics, the surveillance state, and exclusionary social hierarchies. Vinod Pavarala, Senior Professor of Communication & UNESCO Chair on Community Media, University of Hyderabad, India

Pradip Thomas is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland. His previous books include Empire and Post-Empire Telecommunications in India: A History (OUP, 2019).

Information Infrastructures in India untangles the tangled histories of infrastructure in the country, from the colonial railway and the telegraph to the post-colonial modernization projects, including satellite broadcasting and the much-hyped Digital India initiatives. Drawing from an impressive array of theoretical frameworks from critical media studies, techno-policy studies, and anthropological perspectives on the state, Pradip Thomas, one of the leading scholars of the political economy of media and communication in India, urges the reader to understand the contemporary digital approach to nation-building in India as the latest phase in the evolution of information infrastructures that are intricately tied up with neoliberal economics, the surveillance state, and exclusionary social hierarchies. Vinod Pavarala, Senior Professor of Communication & UNESCO Chair on Community Media, University of Hyderabad, India