Abstract
This paper discusses how rhetorics of development pervade the discourse around digital infrastructure-building and policy in contemporary India. I trace institutional discourse on the “Digital India” policy program from its launch in July 2015 to December 2018 with particular focus on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s discourse. I examine the ways in which Modi and other ministers of his cabinet use notions of empowerment and transformation to produce digitization as a new source of development, social welfare, and growth. I argue that Digital India offers key insights to understanding how discourse on technology intersects with neoliberal growth and nationalism in contemporary India.
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Vipulya ChariStudent, PhD Candidate, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Digital Infrastructures, Rhetoric, Development, Nationalism, Public Address, Policy, Technology, India
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