Routledge Digital India and the Poor - Policy, Technology, Society

Digital India and the Poor examines how disadvantaged communities feature in contemporary Indian political discourse and policy-making. This critical work investigates how the poor are classified and accounted for within India's increasingly digitised political economy, commercial frameworks, public policy initiatives, media representation, and academic research. The book interrogates the evolving definition of poverty in India through economic and policy documents spanning several decades, whilst exploring influential digital education technology experiments conducted in Indian slums from the late 1990s onwards. It provides essential analysis of how technology intersects with poverty, inequality, and development narratives in the Indian context, offering readers a comprehensive understanding of the gap between digital policy ambitions and lived experiences of marginalised populations.