ABSTRACT
This chapter picks up the story of postcolonial history had been set in motion, to show how the Indian state reconstitutes itself as an informational entity. It enacts fundamental changes in the domains of broadcasting and telecommunications to usher in an era of communicative modernity and adopts a collaborative stance toward the private sector around the logic of informatics. The chapter is concerned with the Indian states relationship to itself in the wake of the information revolution and attempts to spell out the ways in which the state transforms its governing apparatus in its quest to become the sort of India that Nilekani calls us to imagine. It looks at the telecommunications sector to argue that changes in policies concerning telephony and broadcasting create an environment of communicative modernity where the state gradually relinquishes control over the channels of communication in order to facilitate a freer and more voluminous flow of information.
