In 1974 India exploded an atomic device. In May 1998 the new BJP Government exploded several more, encountering in the process domestic plaudits but international condemnation and a nuclear arms race in South Asia. This book is the first serious historical account of the development of nuclear power in India and of how the bomb came to be made. The author questions orthodox interpretations implying that it was a product of the Indo-Pakistani conflict. Instead, he suggests that the explosions had nothing to do with national security as conventionally understood. Instead he demonstrates the linkages that existed between the two apparently separate discourses of national security and national development, and explores their common underlying basis in postcolonial states. The result is a remarkable book that breaks new ground in integrating comparative politics, international relations and cultural studies.
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“Uses Western archival sources brilliantly to tell a story that can't be told from India because of the huge secrecy that surrounds the subject.” —Partha Chatterjee, author, Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World
“A thoughtful and original understanding of science and the state as fetishes of postcolonial modernity.” —Gyan Prakash, Princeton University
“A thoughtful and original understanding of science and the state as fetishes of postcolonial modernity.” —Gyan Prakash, Princeton University
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Itty Abraham is Program Director at the Social Science Research Council in New York.
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Goes beyond churning out pointless facts,
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This review is from: The Making of the Indian Atomic Bomb: Science, Secrecy and the Postcolonial State (Postcolonial Encounters) (Hardcover)
A reflective analysis of Indian nuclearization. Not meant for those who do not want to think, but like to see the nuclearization as a sensational journalistic thriller about the bomb.
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LESS FACTS AND MORE THEORY,
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This review is from: The Making of the Indian Atomic Bomb: Science, Secrecy and the Postcolonial State (Postcolonial Encounters) (Paperback)
THE AUTHOR IS TRYING TO PUT ACROSS HIS VIEWS RATHER THAN THE GENERAL PUBLIC VIEWS, I SUPPOSE NO COUNTRY WILL FOLLOW A TRANSPARENT NUCLEAR POLICY, WHICH THE AUTHOR SEEMS TO ADVOCATE.
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