The whims and fancies of technological modernity: Biometrics and the digital empire of (mis)trust
By Rajiv K. Mishra. This blog highlights the resurgence of biometric governmentality in India from colonial times to the present neoliberal era. In doing so, it argues that at heart of this governmentality is the re-institutionalization of (mis)trust of Dalits and Adivasis for accessing welfare entitlements.