About the Book: Technology from Below: Hi-Tech and Backyard Inventors
The book illustrates the role of new subalterns in Indian history and
contemporary development by focusing on the life story of the Late Mr K. Narayan
of Bijnor in western Uttar Pradesh in India. It describes his inventions and
emphasizes on his participatory engagements with his children aimed at realizing
the desired results in problem solving through scientific thinking and action.
His simple ways turned adversity into opportunity for them. Equally significant
was his articulation of a discourse that the code for differentiating high
technology from backyard science led to unacceptable notions about the status