Cell Phone Nation: How Mobile Phones Have Revolutionized Business, Politics and Ordinary Life in India (58 page)

Congress Party,
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,
42
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46
–
7
,
53
,
60
,
152
,
157
,
221
–
2

Constitution of India,
30
,
143
,
145

consumer goods,
6
,
87
,
213

consumer practices,
61
,
70
–
2
,
77
–
9
,
84
–
6
,
99
–
100
,
108
–
10
,
193
,
195
,
198
,
214
;
see also
domestication

consumerism,
76
,
110
,
187
,
191
,
210

Consuming Technologies
,
168

consumption,
6
–
7
,
11
,
104
,
108

copper,
74
; cost of,
42

crime,
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–
202

Crossette, Barbara,
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–
40

Cumberland, Duke of,
37

cyber-utopianism,
146

Cyrillic,
219

Daal Mandi,
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–
101
,
192

dak
,
30

Dalits,
147
–
50
,
152
–
6
,
163
,
202

Dashashvamedh Ghat,
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Defence, Minister of,
8

Delhi police,
198
,
204

Delhi Public School,
194

Delhi,
43
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67
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72
,
95
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100
,
167
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198
,
214
;
see also
New Delhi

Deloche, Jean,
23

Denmark,
13

Desai, Ashok,
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,
46
,
49

Dev D
,
194

Devanagari,
154

Deve Gowda, H. D.,
31

Dharmasutra
,
143

Dhirubhai Ambani Entrepreneurs (DAE),
70

dhobis
,
223

diabetes,
211

diesel,
94
–
6
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120
–
1
,
123
,
213
,
241
n

Dinesh Lal,
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Diwali,
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,
82
–
3
,
85

DMK,
see
Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam

dogs,
67
–
8
;
see also
Cheeka

domestication,
10
,
168
,
229
n;
see also
consumer practices

Donner, Jonathan,
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,
121
–
3
,
158
,
200

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam,
60
,
202

Dupleix,
23

East India Company,
23

Economic Weekly
,
27

Economist
,
119

Egypt,
160

EKO,
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,
123
–
31
,
138
,
140
–
1
,
246
n

Election Commission of India (ECI),
156

electronic waste,
213
–
15

‘emergency’ 1975,
24

employment in telecom: estimate of,
61
,
89
–
90
,
111
,
122
–
3
; women and,
90
–
4

Engels, Friedrich,
94

English,
102

Escobari, Marcela X.,
115
,
121
–
3

Essar,
55
–
6
;
see also
Vodafone, Hutchison

Estrada, President Joseph,
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,
221

Europe,
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22
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3
,
27
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37
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52
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110
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,
216
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219
,
239
n

e-waste,
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15

Facebook,
182
–
3

farmers,
8
,
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,
118
,
223
; mobiles and,
138
–
41
,
247
n

Fast Moving Consumer
Goods (FMCG),
5
,
71
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2
,
86
–
7
,
90
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124
,
131

Federal Communications Commission (FCC),
36

Filipinos,
144

Finland,
14
,
219

First Gulf War,
34
–
5
,
42

First World War,
89
,
95

Fischer, Claude S.,
89
,
168

fishermen,
8
,
144
,
244
n; in Kerala,
118
–
23
,
132
,
144
,
223
,
243
n

Five Year Plans,
31
–
2

flash mobs,
221

Fly,
80

footwear,
2
;
see also
shoes

Forbes
,
55

Ford, Henry,
77
,
102
,
111

Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, The
,
119

Foucault, Michel,
179

Foxconn,
92

France,
4

gaming,
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,
217
–
18
,
262
n

Gandhi, Indira,
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,
31
,
33

Gandhi, M. K.,
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7

Gandhi, Rajiv,
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–
5
,
39
,
40
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42
,
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,
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90
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Ganesh,
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–
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Ganga River,
1
,
3
–
4
,
123
,
131
–
2
,
225
n

garibi hatao
,
124

GDP: share of agriculture in,
137

Geekani, Syed Abdul Rehman,
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gender relations,
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9
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2
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182
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,
217
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231
n,
252
n,
253
n

Genghis Khan,
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Germany,
4

Ghaffar Market,
100
,
103
–
04
,
193

Ghana,
5
,
159

ghatwar
,
132
–
3

Giridharadas, Anand,
53
,
182

Glasgow,
206

global village,
141

Goa,
68
,
116
,
244
n

Global Positioning Technology,
95

Gods Must Be Crazy, The
,
168

Gondi,
160
–
1
,
219

Google Earth,
73

Gorakhpur,
81
,
84

gossip,
21
,
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,
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,
186
–
7
,
202
,
205

Gram Vaani,
219

Grandmother’s Tale, The
,
21

Grewal, David Singh,
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,
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,
217

grey markets,
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,
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,
98
–
9
,
107
–
08
,
110
,
197
,
242
n

Gross Domestic Product,
119

Global System for Mobile communications (GSM),
54
–
5
,
235
n,
238
n,
239
n