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Acknowledgments This book has taken a very long time to complete. It owes its existence to the generosity and support of many people. To start with, I would like to thank the MRI scientists in India, Britain, and the United States who not only agreed to be interviewed by me but also shared various documents that belonged to their labs and to their personal collections. In particular, I want to thank Bill Edelstein, Gomathy Gopinath , Rakesh Gupta, N. R. Jagannathan, Rama Jayasundar, Paul Lauterbur, Morton Meyers, Peter Morris, and Thomas Redpath. Imperial Technocience has grown out of research I started as a doctoral student. My sincere thanks go to Andrew Pickering for his encouragement and support throughout my research. Andy kept prodding me to show why anybody else should be interested in my topic and kept me on my toes about the emergent aspects of technoscientific practice. Though I was often critical of analyzing technoscience as an open-ended practice, in the end, it helped me articulate the tension between temporal emergence and structural hierarchies. I will never forget Geoffrey Bowker’s mentorship and friendship. Even when we were not in regular touch, I knew I could always count on his support. I also thank Jan Nederveen-Pieterse and Fazal Rizvi, who started as my gurus but who have become very good friends, for their enduring support. And special thanks to the other mentors I was so lucky to have—Michael Goldman, John Lie, Zine Magubane, Paula Triechler, and Charis Thompson. John may not remember, but it was his questioning of my methodology that finally led me to break off my comparative study of two labs, one in the United States and the other in India. Several of my fellow graduate students were not only pillars of strength at that time, but have also continued to be close friends, in particular, Emin Adas, Peter Asaro, Niharika Banerjea, Himika Bhattacharya, Adrian Cruz, Tulsi Dharmrajan , Indranil Dutta, Aya Ezawa, Ezekiel Flannery, Serife Genis, Saran x Acknowledgments Ghatak, Keith Guzik, David Hopping, Kazyuo Kubo, Diana Mincyte, Deepti Misri, Aniruddha Mitra, Zakia Salime, Debarati Sen, and Yildirim Senturk. Nor will I ever forget my gurus and friends in India who initiated me into sociology. J. P. S. Uberoi, for all his crankiness, made me understand the joys of sociological inquiry. And I am deeply indebted to Veena Das, Dipankar Gupta, Irfan Habib, Deepak Kumar, Deepak Mehta, Dhruv Raina, and Shiv Visvanathan for their intellectual guidance. My fellow scholars in South Asian science and technology studies, Itty Abraham, Kavita Philip, Banu Subramaniam, and Abha Sur, have been a joy to match wits with, and I am thankful particularly to Itty for his continuing support. During my one year as a postdoc at the University of Wisconsin, Madison , I was lucky to know, engage with, and get the support of Warwick Anderson and Joan Fujimura. I have cherished their friendship and mentorship ever since. I also wish to thank Bernadette Baker for our wonderful and exciting intellectual exchanges and Ron Numbers and Linda Hogle for their most helpful comments and suggestions. I am grateful to those who read earlier drafts of the manuscript, when I was struggling to develop a cogent narrative, in particular, Bernadette Baker, Lisa Cartwright, Brian Dolan, Stefani Engelstein, Noah Heringman, Theodore Koditschek, and Carsten Strathausen. And I owe very special thanks to Peeter Tammeveski for carefully reading through several later drafts and suggesting extremely useful changes. Writing a book, as I realized soon after embarking on it, is quite different from writing journal articles—as is getting that book published. I am very grateful for the support of Brian Dolan and Marguerite Avery in this regard. And writing a book, particularly the first one, also involves a variety of entanglements with studies and official duties, among other things. Balancing all these can be both challenging and draining. I have been lucky to have wonderful graduate students colleagues at the University of Missouri to help ease my way: Eileen Bjornstrom, Wayne Brekhus, Edward Brent, Eric Brown, Dave Brunsma, Sam Bullington, Glen Cameron, John Galligher, Jay Gubrium, Bina Gupta, Victoria Johnson, Clarence Lo, Mary Jo Neitz, Tola Pearce, Jason Rodriquez, and Becky Scott. I am particularly thankful for the support of Jay, Tola, and Joan. My thanks go as well to Mario Biagioli, Adele Clarke, Joseph Dumit, Mike Lynch, and my MRI comrades, Regula Burri and Kelly Joyce, for helping me in different, often unseen, ways to think through the conundrums of MRI research...

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