Publications | Rohit Chandra

Academic Publications

Co-edited the October 2020 issue of Seminar focused on Untangling Business-State Relations in India with Rahul Verma. (14 essays)
- Essay on "Taking the Temperature of Capital"
- Essay on "The Rusty Frame of Indian State Capitalism" with Elizabeth Chatterjee
Chandra, Rohit. “India’s Coal Industry and CIL in Historical Perspective.” In Ed. Rahul Tongia, Anurag Sehgal and Puneet Kamboj. Future of Coal in India: Smooth Transition or Bumpy Road Ahead. Chennai: Notion Press, 2020.
Rohit Chandra, Jan Steckel, Michael Jakob et al (2020). "The future of coal in a carbon-constrained climate." Nature Climate Change.
Rohit Chandra & Michael Walton (2020) "Big potential, big risks? Indian capitalism, economic reform and populism in the BJP era", India Review, 19:2, 176-205, DOI: 10.1080/14736489.2020.1744997
Chandra, Rohit. “Extractive States and Layered Conflict: The Case of Jharkhand's Electricity Sector” In Ed. Navroz Dubash, Sunila Kale and Ranjit Bharvirkar. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2018.

Book Reviews

Chandra, Rohit. "Everyday Technology: Machines and the Making of India's Modernity." By David Arnold. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. 90.3 (2016): 609-611. Cambridge University Press. Web.
Chandra, Rohit. “Forging Capitalism in Nehru’s India: Neocolonialism and the State, C. 1940–1970." By Nasir Tyabji . New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2015. 90.4 (2016): 822–824. Cambridge University Press. Web.
Book Review of Puja Mehra's The Lost Decade. Open Magazine. 8 November 2019.
- Book discussion at CPR. Part 1 (discussion) and Part 2 (Q&A).
Book Review of Vivek Kaul's Bad Money. The Hindu, 25 July 2020
Book Review of Urjit Patel's Overdraft. Open Magazine. 21 Aug 2020.
Book Review of M Rajshekhar's Despite the State and Harsh Mander's Locking Down the Poor. Open Magazine. 26 Feb 2021.

Policy Publications

Co-author of coal chapter of Chawla Committee on Allocation of Natural Resources (CANR) report
Policy Brief for SAIS-ISEP on embedded nature of Indian coal industry
Comments submitted on CERC discussion paper on Market-Based Economic dispatch (February 2019)

Popular Writing (links in title)

I wrote a monthly newsletter for The Morning Context from October 2021 to July 2023, available here
"Cheering a Lap-Win in an Unfinished Race." Financial Express. 1 December 2020.
"There is a crisis in the coal industry." Hindustan Times. 7 June 2020.
"We need legislative and institutional reforms to avoid a repeat of panic in debt mutual funds," (co-authored with KP Krishnan) Economic Times, 1 May 2020.
"A Coal Commission for India," Indian Express, Jan. 3, 2019
"New commercial mining policy won’t end Coal India’s monopoly, but might make it more competitive," Scroll.in, March 3, 2018
"India Should Not Hurry on Renewables," Hindu Business Line, Jan. 16, 2018
"Producing Clean Coal is No Easy Task," Hindu Business Line, Dec. 1, 2015
"Changing Power Structures," Hindu Business Line, Oct. 23, 2013
"Understanding the Coal Crisis," Hindu Business Line, Nov. 21, 2011

Selected Media Coverage

Lectures, Panels and Podcasts

One.5º Panel on The Global Energy Crunch at University of Chicago, Yuen Campus, Hong Kong (January 2022)
India Energy Hour w/ Shreya Jai and Sandeep Pai on the past and future of India's coal industry (March 2021)
Interpreting India w/ Srinath Raghavan on state-capital relations (19 November 2020)
Puliyabaazi podcast with Pranay Kotasthane and Saurabh Chandra on state-capital relations (12 November 2020)
Florence School of Regulation. Panel on "Just Transitions: What it means from Developing Countries." 7 October 2020.
JHU-SAIS."Coal in India - Transitions and Persistence." 2 February 2018.
University of Texas - Austin Energy Symposium. "Coal in India: History and Persistence." 22 February 2018.