| ID | 118900 |
| Title Proper | Problem of traffic |
| Other Title Information | the street-life of modernity in late-colonial India |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Arnold, David |
| Publication | 2012. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | In India in the early twentieth century the modern socio-technological phenomenon of traffic brought together many visible and accessible forms of everyday technology. However, in India modern motorized transport had to operate alongside earlier, seemingly 'pre-modern', modes of street-life. The emergence of traffic helped foster the expansion of late-colonial policing and the growth of the 'everyday state'. It stimulated a new sense of a middle class identity and the proper ordering and disciplining of those who used the modern highway. But the technology of traffic was also contested-by those who evaded traffic rules as well as by those who were critical of technological modernity or the rising human cost of traffic accidents. The street at times became a site of open opposition to state authority or, through the deliberate disruption of traffic, a significant location for the exercise of political defiance and control. |
| `In' analytical Note | Modern Asian Studies Vol. 46, No.1; Jan 2012: p.119-141 |
| Journal Source | Modern Asian Studies Vol. 46, No.1; Jan 2012: p.119-141 |
| Key Words | India ; Modernity ; Problem of Traffic ; Everyday Technology ; Technological Modernity |