Social Media and Democracy

This chapter is a play on the notion of technology and the idea of modern

India was imagined by a select group of modern Indians. The intellectual history of the

location of technology in the idea of modern India, which this work undertook to

explore, is based on the interpretations of the original literary works with reference to

how these literary masterpieces looked at technology for India. This chapter critically

evaluates the literature of Raja Rammohan Roy.