Book review: let there be light: engineering, entrepreneurship and electricity in colonial Bengal, 1880-1945 by Suvobrata Sarkar

In Let There be Light: Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Electricity in Colonial Bengal, 1880-1945, Suvobrata Sarkar examines the emergence of electricity between 1880 and 1945 in Bengal, exploring the impact of its arrival upon industry, entrepreneurship, the education of engineers and the professionalisation of engineering. Thoughtful and impressively researched, the book pushes the boundaries of the historiography of science and technology in India, writes Tirthankar Roy.