Uncoded : A technological History Of Independent India - Softcover

Meghaa Gupta

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143467093 ISBN 13: 9780143467090

Publisher: Puffin, 2025

Synopsis

From factories to farms, battlefields to boardrooms, clinics to classrooms—in the years since Independence, modern technology has swept through all corners of Indian life. But back in 1947, this seemed impossible. Low literacy, poverty and lack of expertise meant that newly independent India was unable to afford the mighty technologies of World War II that were reshaping the globe. Yet, with unshakeable resolve, a small team of far-sighted policymakers and scientists set out to make the impossible possible. Today, India’s technological progress is celebrated globally. It is home to some of the biggest software companies and has one of the best space programmes in the world. For many Indians, modern technology has become part of daily life. Uncoded: A Technological History of Independent India is a story of one of the greatest technological transformations in the modern world. Blending a unique narrative with illustrations, trivia, personal anecdotes and an informative timeline, it explores how a nation used science and technology to rebuild itself and reimagine its destiny against all odds.

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About the Author

Meghaa Gupta’s exploits in history are the outcome of an irrepressible urge to contextualize the challenges of the present with the past and make greater sense of the times we live in. She works in children’s publishing and firmly believes that all change begins with getting children to read books that demystify the world and its infinite possibilities. She curates the Nature Writing for Children Programme at Azim Premji University and is the co-founder of Literature across Border, an international literary exchange programme for young people’s books at Bath Spa University in the UK. Meghaa is the author of two other widely acclaimed books on independent India published by Puffin, After Midnight: A History of Independent India (2022) and Unearthed: An Environmental History of Independent India (2020). This is the third book in the series.

Edition details

• Publisher: Puffin
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0143467093
• ISBN 13: 9780143467090
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264