Recent

2018 “Insulated wires: the precarious rise of West Bengal’s power sector,” in Navroz Dubash, Sunila Kale, and Ranjit Bharvirkar, eds., Mapping Power: The Political Economy of Electricity in India’s States, pp. 319–339 (Oxford University Press)

 

2018 “The politics of electricity reform: evidence from West Bengal, India,” World Development 104: 128–139

 

2017 “Reinventing state capitalism in India: a view from the energy sector,” Contemporary South Asia 25(1): 85–100

  • Winner, best student article, British Association for South Asian Studies

 

2017 “Urban Emotions in South Asia,” special issue of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. 27 no. 4 (edited with Sneha Krishnan and Megan Robb)

 

2017 “The limits of liberalization: the power sector,” in R. Nagaraj and Sripad Motiram, eds., India’s Political Economy, pp. 52–74 (Cambridge University Press)

 

2014 “Power hungry: the state and the troubled transition in Indian electricity,” in Barbara Harriss-White and Judith Heyer, eds., Indian Capitalism in Development, pp. 208–225 (Routledge)

 

2013 Delhi: Mostly Harmless (Random House India)

 

2012 “Dissipated energy: Indian electric power and the politics of blame,” Contemporary South Asia 20(1): 91–103

 

2011 “Diaspora,” in Roger D. Long and Arnold Kaminsky, eds., India Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Republic, vol. 2, pp. 170–176 (ABC-CLIO)

JOB ALERT: @sais_isep is looking for a post-doc with #India #energy modeling skills - work with me and @WeiPeng_Pton on coal-to-renewables transition using cutting edge models and lots of policy outreach! Send any and all qualified candidates my way.
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Guilty summer reading: a study of UBC finds that there is no clear relationship between how much academics fly and scholarly impact (measured by citation count). Scholars working on "green" issues fly just as much
h/t @ProfTimBale
https://t.co/HzSlgTIDvM

should you pick a major for its higher wages? No! pick what interests you, and here's why: economist Zach Bleemer explains his #disquantified paper https://t.co/tCN2pz29Cz @UCHRInews @lgoldblatt @PaulaKrebs @goldstoneandrew @cwellmon @ncecire @natterjee @lmcmillen

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Forthcoming

Class and Conflict: Rethinking the Political Economy of India (Oxford University Press, under contract: manuscript delivered) (editor, with Matthew McCartney)

 

A climate of scarcity: electricity in India, 1899–2016,” in John Brewer, Neil Fromer, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, and Frank Trentmann, eds., Scales of Scarcity in the Modern World, 1800–2075 (Bloomsbury)

 

Distinctively dysfunctional: state capitalism 2.0 and the Indian power sector,” in Anthony D’Costa and Achin Chakraborty, eds., Changing Contexts and Shifting Roles: New Perspectives on the Indian State (Springer)