Writing
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Source: Madras Agricultural Journal
Peer Reviewed Articles
2024 “Defining the multipurpose reservoir between irrigation and hydroelectricity: the political economy of water in southern India c. 1900-1960s,” Capitalism: a Journal of History and Economics (forthcoming)
2023 "The Plague in Madras: The Making of an “Immune” City," Journal of Urban History (December 2023 [Online First]) https://doi.org/10.1177/00961442231215829
2021 “Fixes and flows: water, disease and housing in Bangalore,” Urban History http://doi:10.1017/S0963926821000705 (First view)
2020 “Improvement, Indian rivers and the emergence of large dams in nineteenth century Madras,” The Historical Journal https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X20000163
“Public works and infrastructure: the history of a concept in colonial India,” History Compass (May 2020 [Online First]). https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12614
2019 “The work of tanks: maintenance, ecology and the nineteenth century colonial economy in south India,” Water History (January 2019). https://doi.10.1007/s12685-018-0226-5
2018 “Custom as natural: land, water, and law in colonial Madras,” Studies in History 33:1 (February 2018): 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/0257643017736402
Review Articles
2020 “Lineages of the agrarian modern,” Antipode: a Radical Journal of Geography https://antipodeonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Book-review_Ramesh-on-Bhattacharya.pdf
2016 “Scientific Commodities, Imperial Dreams,” History and Philosophy of Science Part C 60 (December 2016): 88-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2016.04.006
2016 “Scientific Commodities, Imperial Dreams,” History and Philosophy of Science Part C 60 (December 2016): 88-91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2016.04.006
PUBLIC WRITING
PUBLIC WRITING
2023 With Rohan D’Souza Large dams and clean energy: a view from India, can be accessed here
2021 Beyond Planning: Flood and the Hydro-archive in Chennai, History Workshop Online can be accessed here. [Republished as Disaster at the Margins A history of Chennai's floods, The India Forum, can be accessed here]
2021 Deltas after rice: agrarian pasts, environmental futures, Institute for Historical Research Blog, can be accessed here.
2020 Tamilnadu Governments’ Bill to Protect Cauvery Delta Makes the Right Noises, Not Much Else, The Wire, can be accessed here.
2018 “Research note on the Tamilnadu State Archives (TNSA) collections,” Joint Centre for History and Economics at Cambridge University and Harvard University. Can be accessed here.
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