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Electrifying India : regional political economies of development /

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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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Kale, Sunila S., 1973- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • List of Maps and Tables; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Electricity as New India's "Strategic Railway"; 3. Maharashtra and the Politics of Selective Rural Development; 4. Extractive Industrialization and Limited Electrification in Odisha; 5. Social Movements and Electric Populism in Andhra Pradesh; 6. Conclusion: "Electricity for All
  • Notes; Bibliography; Index.