Interpreting India19 Marras 2020

Navigating State-Capital Relations with Rohit Chandra

In this episode Rohit Chandra joins Srinath Raghavan to analyze the relationship between state and capital in India.

EPISODE CONTRIBUTORS

Rohit Chandra is a political scientist and an economic historian working primarily on energy, infrastructure and state capitalism in India. His recent work has covered the coal and power industries. Over the last decade, he has worked in the policy space on coal sector reforms, the politics of state discoms (particularly in Jharkhand), and public finance decisions behind large infrastructure projects.

Srinath Raghavan is a nonresident senior fellow at Carnegie India. He is also a professor of International Relations and History at Ashoka University. His primary research focus is on the contemporary and historical aspects of India’s foreign and security policies. He has written a number of books spanning international relations, strategic studies and modern South Asian history.

Additional Reading:

1. Seminar Issue 734: Untangling Business-State Relations in India by Rohit Chandra and Rahul Verma

2. Big potential, big risks? Indian capitalism, economic reform and populism in the BJP era by Rohit Chandra and Michael Walton

3. Winner takes all: Big fish swallow the small ones amid demand slowdown by Krishna Kant

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