Download or read book Imagining Digital India written by Vipulya Chari and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation documents and analyzes state discourses promoting digitization in contemporary India to trace the emergence of a rhetoric of digital development. It demonstrates that rhetorics of digital development are informed by imaginaries of techno-nationalism that have long been important expressions of shared identity, values, and national goals in postcolonial India. I offer a diachronic approach to study the rhetoric of digital development with a specific focus on the discourses surrounding the 2015 federal policy "Digital India" and argue that the techno-nationalistic imaginary of digital development represents itself in the ostensibly neutral, democratizing language of digital technology and empowerment, and consolidates networks of political and economic power. The institutional imaginaries of techno-nationalism in India are analyzed through a multi-modal archive of cultural texts. This archive includes artefacts such as speech texts, policy reports, promotional materials (including films, coffee table books and other materials), mobile apps, and public events including discursive encounters between public officials and technology leaders. I documented this complex and diverse discourse using a combination of digital methods, ethnographic observation, and archival research.