Harshavardan Raghunandhan

Harshavardan Raghunandhan is a doctoral student in the Department of History. He is interested in the environmental history of postcolonial India, particularly in the intersection of energy, ecology and agrarian political-economy. Harsha is a student of South Asian and environmental history with interests in late Cold War regimes of development and the nature of ecological dissent against them. Harsha is especially excited about new approaches to energy, materials, and natural resource histories; he hopes to integrate approaches to such subjects into his own work. He is also interested in the ways in which we can reconfigure conceptions of moral economy in light of ecological crises.