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46.
   
Times of India
, 8 August 2012,
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Every-poor-family-may-get-a-mobile/articleshow/15395670.cms
(accessed 8 August 2012). The cost was estimated at Rs 7,000 crores or about US $1.2 billion. James Wolfensohn, former president of the World Bank, floated similar ideas—a phone for every woman—two months earlier.
New York Times
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/16/opinion/a-cellphone-for-every-woman.html
(accessed 9 August 2012).

47.
  
http://www.hindu.com/2006/09/16/stories/2006091611920400.htm
(accessed 4 April 2012).
Outlook
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http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?281538
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48.
   Madon,
e-Governance for Development
, p. 164.

49.
   
Documentation of Best Practice. SMS Based Monitoring System
(npp: OneWorld Foundation India, 2010), p. 4,
http://indiagovernance.gov.in/bestpractices.php?id=393
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50.
   Ling and Donner,
Mobile Communication
, p. 152. Madon,
e-Governance
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51.
   See, for example,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia-pacific/indians-use-cellphones-to-plug-holes-in-governance/2011/10/24/gIQAooAmOM_story.html
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52.
   Dr Vinay Kumar Malaviya, ‘Mobile Phone’, in Punarnava Magazine,
Dainik Jagran
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53.
   Nandan Nilekani,
Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century
(London: Allen Lane, 2008), p. 122.

54.
   For example, Surabhi
Mittal, Sanjay Gandhi, Gaurav Tripathi,
Socio-Economic Impact of Mobile Phones on Indian Agriculture
, Working Paper No. 246 (New Delhi: Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2010). Nilekani,
Imagining India
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55.
   Fernand Braudel,
Capitalism and Material Life, 1400–1800
(London: Fontana, 1974), p. ix.

56.
   Braudel,
Capitalism
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