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

Digital India and The Poor provides a deep look into how the poor are represented in modern Indian political discourse. This book examines how disadvantaged groups are accounted for within a digitised political economy, public policy, media, and academic research. It offers a critical look at how the category of the poor has been classified in economic and policy documents over several decades. Readers will learn about the impact of digital education technology experiments conducted in Indian slums since the late 1990s. By studying the intersection of technology and society, this work explores how commercial and public policy decisions affect the lives of those at the bottom of the economic scale. It is a necessary resource for anyone studying the social and economic conditions of contemporary India and the role of digital transformation in shaping policy.