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The volume is a collection of essays interrogating the connections of digital governance and digital politics in South Asia. It challenges the dominant idea of digital governance as a purely technological, technocratic and ‘apolitical’ phenomenon. Based on a largely transdisciplinary approach, the contributions in the volume are both theoretically informed and empirically grounded as they cover select South Asian states. Against this backdrop, the volume highlights the growing intervention and outcome of new ‘invasive’ technologies in shaping the social and political processes. The contributors interrogate the critical intersections of governance and politics, with intense focus on strategies, policies, infrastructure, services, skills and capacity building, performance and measurement, and political communication. In offering a bottom-up view of the digital reality of South Asia along with its potentials, challenges and dilemmas, the volume seeks to provoke further deliberations and debates on this important theme.

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Author:   Dipankar Sinha (Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.) ,  Samir Sharma (St. Joseph’s College, North Point, Darjeeling (WB), India.)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt Ltd
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic India
Dimensions:   Width: 14.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.20cm
Weight:   0.441kg
ISBN:  

9789356409378

ISBN 10:   9356409374
Pages:   238
Publication Date:   30 January 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction – Dipankar Sinha and Samir Sharma I– INDIA 2. Digital Finance and Digital Payments Interface in India: A Reality Check - Bishal Rai 3. Digitalizing the Census in India: Roadway to e-Governance? – Nisha Tamang 4. Digital Technologies and Elections in India: Negotiating Key Challenges - Tshumila Lama 5. Digital Politics of an Exiled State: The Case of the Tibetans in India – Jigme Yeshe Lama 6. ‘King of the Jungle’: Digital protest as normative disruptions in India’s Northeast - Kaustubh Deka II- NEPAL 7. Evolution of Nepal’s ICT Policies: In the Lens of Document Analysis - Nischal Regmi and Shailesh B. Pandey 8. Digital Re-fashioning of Identity: Insights from the Nepal Picture Library - Rahul Ganguly III- BANGLADESH 9. Digital Politics in Bangladesh: Interactive Dynamics between Practices, Public and Policy of the Internet - Ratan Kumar Roy and Preeksha Malhotra IV- PAKISTAN 10. Hashtagification of political slogans: Catalyzing propagation of political narratives - Rizvan Saeed V- SRI LANKA 11. e-Governance and Cybercrime in Sri Lanka: A Study of Legislations - Vishaka Suriyabandara, Vinsuka Kannangara and Sathya Gunawardana About the Editors and Contributors Index

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Dipankar Sinha, Professor, Department of Political Science & Director, Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. Dr. Samir Sharma, Head & Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, St. Joseph’s College, North Point, Darjeeling (WB), India.

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