Creative Competition: Georgia Power, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the Creation of a Rural Consumer Economy, 1934–1955

Energy in South Asian history

“…After 1947, the Indian state began to assert limited programs of energy sovereignty through dual efforts to build infrastructural capacity and assert the legal prerogative of the state in matters of resource governance. In the first instance, postcolonial planners committed to river valley development projects modeled on the integrated irrigation and hydroelectric schemes of the United States and the Soviet Union (Cebul, 2018; Klingensmith, 2007). As early as 1948, postcolonial planners outlined an industrial policy of state monopoly over future coal mining operations.…”