Electrifying India : regional political economies of development / Sunila S. Kale.

Throughout the 20th century, electricity was considered to be the primary vehicle of modernity, as well as its quintessential symbol. In India, electrification was central to how early nationalists and planners conceptualized Indian development, and huge sums were spent on the project from then unti...

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Main Author: Kale, Sunila S., 1973- (Author)
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Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.
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