Book Reviews – Synergy: The Journal of Contemporary Asian Studies

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Book Review: Ying Jia Tan’s Recharging China

February 6, 2022

Keywords: electricity, infrastructure, centralization, grid in China Ying Jia Tan’s new book, Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882-1955, seizes on an extraordinary subject: where did China’s electrical industries come from, and why did they […]

Why India Votes

January 10, 2022

“The Vote is our weapon” There is abundant scholarly work available on the political behaviour of representative democracies but they mostly used quantitative methods to arrive at conclusions. An anthropological scholar by name Mukulika Banerjee […]