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Winner of the Science Fiction Research Association Book Award 2021. This is the first book-length study of the relationship between science fiction, the techno-scientific policies of independent India, and the global non-aligned movement that emerged as a response to the Cold War and decolonization. Today, we see the trend of science fiction writers being used by governments as advisors on techno-scientific policies and defence industries. But such relationships between literature, policy and g…
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- Author: Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee
- Publisher: Liverpool University Press
- ISBN-10: 1789620287
- ISBN-13: 9781789620283
- Format: 15.8 x 23.6 x 1.8 cm, hardcover
- Language: English
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Winner of the Science Fiction Research Association Book Award 2021.
This is the first book-length study of the relationship between science fiction, the techno-scientific policies of independent India, and the global non-aligned movement that emerged as a response to the Cold War and decolonization. Today, we see the trend of science fiction writers being used by governments as advisors on techno-scientific policies and defence industries. But such relationships between literature, policy and geo-politics have a long and complex history. Glimpses of this history can be seen in the case of the first generation of post-colonial Indian science fiction writers, the policies of scientific and technological development in independent India, and the political strategy of non-alignment advocated by India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, who proposed that Third World nations should maintain an equal distance between Washington and Moscow. Such a perspective reveals the surprisingly long and relatively unknown life of Indian science fiction, as well asthe critical role played by the genre in imagining alternative pathways for scientific and geo-political developments to those that dominate our lives now.
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- Author: Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee
- Publisher: Liverpool University Press
- ISBN-10: 1789620287
- ISBN-13: 9781789620283
- Format: 15.8 x 23.6 x 1.8 cm, hardcover
- Language: English English
Winner of the Science Fiction Research Association Book Award 2021.
This is the first book-length study of the relationship between science fiction, the techno-scientific policies of independent India, and the global non-aligned movement that emerged as a response to the Cold War and decolonization. Today, we see the trend of science fiction writers being used by governments as advisors on techno-scientific policies and defence industries. But such relationships between literature, policy and geo-politics have a long and complex history. Glimpses of this history can be seen in the case of the first generation of post-colonial Indian science fiction writers, the policies of scientific and technological development in independent India, and the political strategy of non-alignment advocated by India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, who proposed that Third World nations should maintain an equal distance between Washington and Moscow. Such a perspective reveals the surprisingly long and relatively unknown life of Indian science fiction, as well asthe critical role played by the genre in imagining alternative pathways for scientific and geo-political developments to those that dominate our lives now.
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