India’s Coal Story

From Damodar to Zambezi
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-93-86446-00-8
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 322 g

Believe it or not, India has one of the largest coal reserves in Asia, but still relies on imports from Australia and Mozambique.

India’s coal reserves were the lifeline that fuelled the British Empire in Asia, and yet today this industry is on the verge of collapse. Coal was at the centre of a major political scandal that nearly sent a prime minister to jail. This one-of-a-kind book unveils the murky politics around coal - the resource that could provide India all the energy security it needs.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bhattacharjee, Subhomoy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Vinod Rai
Preface and Acknowledgements
Ole King Coal
A Nation and Its Contradictions
Nationalisation of Problems
Coal on Sale
Notes from an Auditor
Entrepreneurship and Environment
Winners and Losers
A Promise to Keep
Energy Ambitions
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bhattacharjee, Subhomoy
Subhomoy Bhattacharjee, with twenty-two years of experience in journalism, is a Consulting Editor for Business Standard. His areas of interest include public policy, especially regulatory issues, finance and urban development.

He is the author of Special Economic Zones (SEZ) in India: Myths and Realities. He has authored a study on the Land Acquisition Act, a project on comparative land prices in India’s selected districts and its relation with industrialisation, commissioned by GIZ, India, and TARI. He has previously contributed to other books, including Media at Work in China and India: Discovering and Dissecting (SAGE, 2015).

Subhomoy studied economics at Shri Ram College of Commerce and at Delhi School of Economics, both affiliated to the University of Delhi. He began his career as a civil servant, joining the Indian Information Service through the civil services exam. He has subsequently worked with The Economic Times and was until recently the deputy editor at The Indian Express while writing for The Financial Express too.

Presently, he is also a consultant with Research and Information Systems for Developing Countries (RIS). He frequently appears on television and radio on economic news programmes and has lectured in several universities in India and abroad, on public policy.