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Is India Being Colonised Again?
By Nishant Das
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Description
The book traces parallels between the colonial past and the digital present, from Company Raj to Platform Raj, from resource extraction to data extraction. It shows how trade was once used to build asymmetrical leverage that enabled empire, and how similar patterns of dependency today grant external powers influence over India's commercial ecosystem, national infrastructure, and even its cognitive and psychological landscape.
Shifting the lens from colonial symbols to colonial processes, the book reinterprets India's colonial history through the lenses of data science, behavioural psychology, and system design. Moving beyond infrastructure and material extraction, it examines how colonial systems reshaped identity, behaviour, and mindset, and how those patterns continue to echo in the digital age.
Building on this analysis, the book turns to a reckoning with the present, asking whether technological dependence in the era of platforms, standards, and artificial intelligence is giving rise to a new form of colonisation. It explores a form of control that operates through architecture rather than authority, and consent rather than coercion. Trade routes have become data routes. Governors have been replaced by algorithms. Control no longer announces itself. It embeds.
The book concludes by examining the structural conditions that enable technological dependence to persist and deepen, and the implications&am
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
250
Release Date:
2026-01-14
Publication Date:
2026-01-14
Publisher:
Ambeone Press
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN13:
9798218911287
Weight:
305 g
Height:
127 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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