@article{353101,
      author = {French, Patrick,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/353101},
      title = {India : a portrait /},
      publisher = {Alfred A. Knopf,},
      abstract = {Second only to China in the magnitude of its economic  miracle and second to none in its potential to shape the  new century, India is fast undergoing one of the most  momentous transformations the world has ever seen. In this  panoramic book, Patrick French chronicles that epic change,  telling human stories to explain a larger national  narrative. Melding on-the-ground reports with a deep  knowledge of history, French exposes the cultural  foundations of India's political, economic and social  complexities. He reveals how a nation identified with some  of the most wretched poverty on earth has simultaneously  developed an envied culture of entrepreneurship. Even more  remarkably, he shows how, despite the ancient and  persistent traditions of caste, as well as a mind-boggling  number of ethnicities and languages, India has nevertheless  managed to cohere, evolving into the world's largest  democracy, largely fulfilling Jawaharlal Nehru's dream of a  secular liberal order.--From publisher description.},
      recid = {353101},
      pages = {xi, 398 p. :},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2011},
}