Digital India and the Poor: Policy, Technology and Society

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 ‘ex...