Changing Power Structures
ROHIT CHANDRA
October 21, 2013
In this issue of India in Transition, Rohit Chandra, Doctoral Candidate, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, discusses the last decade of developments in the power sector and how cyclone Phailin brings out some of systemic problems with electricity in India.
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CASI Welcomes Fall 2013 Visiting Scholar, Rohan D'Souza
Dr. Rohan D’Souza is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Studies in Science Policy (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi). He is the author of Drowned and Dammed: Colonial Capitalism and Flood control in Eastern India (2006). His edited books include The British Empire and the Natural World: Environmental Encounters in South Asia (2011) and Environment, Technology and Development: Critical and Subversive Essays (2012).
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