liz chatterjee
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India, energy + infrastructure history, environment and/vs. development @UChicagoHistory
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13-06-2013 10:41:04
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This great new paper by Aditya Ramesh complicates cliches about big multipurpose dams reinforcing state power. At Mettur, he shows that hydroelectricity ran up against the irrigation interest of "an older extractive apparatus, that of agrarian property" doi.org/10.1353/cap.20…
