Introduction: cognitive workers, cognitive bodies -- ENCODING RACE -- Imagining the Indian IT body -- The postracial office -- Proprietary freedoms in an IT office -- ENCODING CLASS -- The stroke of midnight and the spirit of entrepreneurship : a history of the computer in India -- Computers are...

Introduction -- Dispatches from underground -- The public service of discretion -- Gendering the Central Telegraph Office -- Bodied telegraphy -- Unintended network -- Tapped wires -- Martial mercuries -- Voices on the wires -- Epilogue.