India’s Coal Story
From Damodar to Zambezi
Subhomoy Bhattacharjee
Sage
246 pages; Rs 450
Writing about India’s coal sector, circa 2017, can be both potentially rewarding and fraught. The sector has been through a turbulent few years in India, providing more than enough material for an engaging and rewarding narrative about the past. But the sector is also likely poised at the edge of a global decline, albeit a slow one, after a century and a half of dominance over the industrial landscape, which makes speculating about the future a risky prospect.
Through most of its 246 pages, Subhomoy Bhattacharjee’s India’s Coal Story focuses
