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Meena Khandelwal, "Cookstove Chronicles: Social Life of a Women's Technology in India" (U Arizona Press, 2026) artwork
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Meena Khandelwal, "Cookstove Chronicles: Social Life of a Women's Technology in India" (U Arizona Press, 2026)

New Books in South Asian Studies

Jul 8, 202661:50Society & Culture

Stove improvers have been designing and promoting “clean” or “efficient” biomass cookstoves in India since the 1940s and have been frustrated to find their carefully engineered stoves abandoned in trash heaps or repurpos...

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Meena Khandelwal, "Cookstove Chronicles: Social Life of a Women's Technology in India" (U Arizona Press, 2026) is an episode from New Books in South Asian Studies. Stove improvers have been designing and promoting “clean” or “efficient” bio...

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Published Jul 8, 2026, 61:50 long, audio available.