"How did India, a vast incubator of computing talent, fail to realize its postcolonial dreams of technological sovereignty? Banerjee's sobering answer to digital triumphalism traces the doomed struggle between global capital and India's fledgling policy institutions. To break out of the cycle of dependency, Banerjee convincingly argues, India needs social transformation, not more expertise."-- Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard University "A powerful account of the early years of computing in India and the lost opportunity of technical innovation as scientists worked to change the course of global technical futures. Brilliant and narratively compelling, Computing in the Age of Decolonization is an innovative history that recasts the geopolitics of global computing and fundamentally transforms the origins of our technological present."-- Durba Mitra, author of Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought "Well-written and original. Banerjee adds depth to the history of computing, beautifully weaving together different genealogies of science and technology in India."-- Amit Prasad, Georgia Institute of Technology "The uneven global development of digital technology was a feature, not a bug. With his scrupulous accounting of ultimately failed Indian efforts to secure technological sovereignty in the wake of independence, Dwaipayan Banerjee joins the best recent accounts of computing worldwide and transforms how we think through diverse national trajectories through the Cold War and beyond.

Demonstrating how American technological predominance rested upon underdevelopment elsewhere, Computing in the Age of Decolonization will be essential to all future histories and the political economies of information technologies." --Matthew L. Jones, Princeton University.