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... In chapter thirteen, Shankar positions Sahaayaka and its leadership within the emerging politics of digital saviorism in India. Shankar shows how Sahaayaka's brown saviors grapple with the particularities of technological fixations and digital caste systems in both India and the United States...

... in rural communities. Sahaayaka's excess value emerged as part of the powerful and totalizing imaginary of the digital as the solution to poverty in India. At the same time, the savarna diasporic Hindu has been perceived as having a preternatural capacity for technological innovation and therefore has...

... technology India digital race technocracy ...

... In chapter ten, Shankar explores questions of primitive accumulation, economic mobility, and the contradictions of aspiration in the aftermath of the death of fieldworker Manoj's father. Manoj's father was a farmer whose death reflects the tragic phenomenon of farmers' suicide in India...

... In chapter sixteen, Shankar explores the politics of scaling and how it impacts the ways that Sahaayaka imagines its digitized interventions. scaling bureaucracy stereptype abnormalities ...

... In chapter fourteen, Shankar thinks through the politics of digital time as it structures Sahaayaka's intervention. In particular Shankar shows how CEO Krish manipulates fieldworkers' experience of time as they use a new Sahaayaka phone app which makes their job far more about data collection...

... In chapter fifteen, Shankar attends a meeting between Saahaayaka leadership, development personnel, and Karnataka educational leaders. During this meeting, Shankar finds that the versions of digital innovation imagined by those in positions of power reflect their fear of bureaucratic...

... farmers' suicide primitive accumulation valuable death digital death ...

..., economic mobility, and the contradictions of aspiration in the aftermath of the death of fieldworker Manoj's father. Manoj's father was a farmer whose death reflects the tragic phenomenon of farmers' suicide in India. Surprisingly, Manoj's attempts at reweaving life after a tragic loss also reveal some...

..., digitalized, and memorialized). To speak of a history of sexuality from the Ansatzpunkt of abundance is to emphasize both the efflorescence of the past, and to attend to its strategic and active mobilization within the politics of the present. abundance caste South Asia Portuguese India sexuality...