Animesh Chatterjee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3786106 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Animesh Chatterjee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Animesh |
| FAMILY NAME | Chatterjee |
| SIGNATURE | CHATTERJEE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leeds Trinity University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7085-7830 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Roundtable
In the face of diverse and uneven environmental crises across the globe, ongoing efforts to "globalize" the history of technology field may be considered urgent. In doing so, however, we risk uncritically exporting the norms and practices of a predominantly Western-centric field-an arguably colonial act. This roundtable explores four areas of contention: how to conceptualize "the global"; why, how and with whom to study "history" amid threatened …
Electrifying Mexico
Technology and Rural Change in Eastern India
Reviewed by: Technology and Rural Change in Eastern India: 1830–1980 by Smritikumar Sarkar Animesh Chatterjee (bio) Technology and Rural Change in Eastern India: 1830–1980 By Smritikumar Sarkar. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 355. The history of technologies in India has, in recent years, been explored through a variety of perspectives mostly associated with questions of empire, colonialism, and technology transfer from the core to…
‘New wine in new bottles’
The introduction of electricity supply into urban colonial India in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries coincided with the emergence of an Indian middle class debating its own identity and autonomy, and the development of ‘modern’ and Westernised urban centres. This article examines how colonial plans for urban and domestic electrification were influenced by the class politics of the urban Indian middle class and its varied notions …
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‘New wine in new bottles’
The introduction of electricity supply into urban colonial India in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries coincided with the emergence of an Indian middle class debating its own identity and autonomy, and the development of ‘modern’ and Westernised urban centres. This article examines how colonial plans for urban and domestic electrification were influenced by the class politics of the urban Indian middle class and its varied notions …
Technology and Rural Change in Eastern India
Reviewed by: Technology and Rural Change in Eastern India: 1830–1980 by Smritikumar Sarkar Animesh Chatterjee (bio) Technology and Rural Change in Eastern India: 1830–1980 By Smritikumar Sarkar. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 355. The history of technologies in India has, in recent years, been explored through a variety of perspectives mostly associated with questions of empire, colonialism, and technology transfer from the core to…
Roundtable
In the face of diverse and uneven environmental crises across the globe, ongoing efforts to "globalize" the history of technology field may be considered urgent. In doing so, however, we risk uncritically exporting the norms and practices of a predominantly Western-centric field-an arguably colonial act. This roundtable explores four areas of contention: how to conceptualize "the global"; why, how and with whom to study "history" amid threatened …
Electrifying Mexico
History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Economy (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (2 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (1 work)