India's Solar Energy

Dr Liz Chatterjee, specialist in the history and political economy of energy in the age of climate change and lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, talks to us about the challenges and opportunities behind India’s solar energy industry.

Dr Chatterjee has recently published Class and Conflict: Revisiting Pranab Bardhan’s Political Economy of India (Feb 2020).

Liz visited the University of Nottingham on 17th October 2019, to present 'Soft targets: Solar energy and the new federalism in India' as part of the Asia Research Institute's seminar series. 

Further Reading on this topic:

Mapping Power: The Political Economy of Electricity in India’s States - Edited by Navroz K. Dubash, Sunila S. Kale, and Ranjit Bharvirkar. Dr Chatterjee has a chapter on West Bengal.

Electrifying India: Regional Political Economies of Development – Sunila S. Kale

The Wild East: Criminal Political Economies in South Asia – Edited by Barbara Harriss-White and Lucia Michelutti

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