Sunila S. Kale
Contact
- kale@uw.edu
- (206) 221 4852
- Thomson Hall 418
- https://blogs.uw.edu/kale/
About
Sunila Kale teaches in the South Asia Studies and International Studies programs. Her research, writing, and teaching focus on Indian politics and the political economy of development.
Fellowships, Awards and Grants
- 2015-16 Fulbright-Nehru senior research fellowship
- 2015-16 American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Research Fellowship
- 2013 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences by the American Institute of Indian Studies, awarded to book manuscript Electrifying India
Education
- University of Texas, Austin, P.h.D., Government, 2007
- University of Chicago, B.A., (with honors), Political Science, 1995
Selected Courses
Selected Publications
Mapping Power -The Political Economy of Electricity in India's States
Publication type:
Book
Co-Editor(s):
Navroz K. Dubash and Ranjit Bharvirkar
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Publication Date:
2019
Business and State in India’s Extractive Economy
Publication type:
Book Chapter
Published in:
Business and Politics in India
Publication Date:
2019
Solar ‘power’ -socio-political dynamics of infrastructural development in two Western Indian states
Publication type:
Article
Published in:
Energy Research & Social Science
Publication Date:
2018
Structures of Power -Electrification in Colonial India
Publication type:
Article
Published in:
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Volume 34, No. 3
Publication Date:
2014
Power to the People -Even if villages are on the grid, a political push is needed to get them electricity
Publication type:
Article
Published in:
Indian Express
Publication Date:
2014
Natural resources, development strategies, and lower caste empowerment in India’s mineral belt -Bihar and Odisha during the 1990s
Publication type:
Article
Co-Author(s):
Nimah Mazaheri
Published in:
Studies in Comparative International Development 49 no. 3
Publication Date:
2014
Electrifying India -Regional Political Economies of Development
Publication type:
Book
Publisher:
Stanford University Press
Publication Date:
2014
India’s Dark Night -The Politics Behind the Power Failure
Publication type:
Article
Co-Author(s):
Sumit Ganguly
Published in:
Foreign Affairs
Publication Date:
2012
