ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book argues that an initiative like Digital India is not simply a set of instrumental measures that makes day-to-day governance more effective and in line with the contemporary best practices. The digital revolution, according to this emerging perspective, is capable of changing all dimensions of society by means of a technology based on the production, dissemination, and manipulation of information. The book outlines the critical role the emergent informational milieu has played in the national imagination and demonstrates how the state, private capital and public culture have all drawn upon the precepts and protocols of the information age in order to fashion an info-nation. It examines the imprint of the informational turn on the realm of commercial entertainment and popular culture to show how it embeds the logics of globalization into national cultural products.
