Amit S. Rai is Senior Lecturer in New Media and Communication at the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of Untimely Bollywood: Globalization and India's New Media Assemblage, also published by Duke University Press, and the coeditor of InterMedia in South Asia: The Fourth Screen.

Preface  ix
Acknowledgments  xix
Introduction. A Political Ecology of Jugaad  1
Fables of the Reinvention I. Toward a Universal History of Hacking  39
1. The Affect of Jugaad: "Frugal Innovation" and the Workaround Ecologies of Postcolonial Practice  45
2. Neoliberal Assemblages of Perception and Digital Media in India  68
Fables of the Reinvention II. New Desiring Machines  102
3. Jugaad Ecologies of Social Reproduction  106
4. Diagramming Affect: Smart Cities and Plasticity in India's Informal Economy  128
Fables of the Reinvention III. A Series of Minor Events  150
Conclusion. Jugaad Jugaading: Time, Language, Misogyny in Hacking Ecologies  153
Notes  167
References  175
Index  203

Amit S. Rai is Senior Lecturer in New Media and Communication at the School of Business and Management, Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of Untimely Bollywood: Globalization and India's New Media Assemblage, also published by Duke University Press, and the coeditor of InterMedia in South Asia: The Fourth Screen.