India : a portrait / Patrick French.
2011
DS480.84 .F75 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
India : a portrait / Patrick French.
Author
French, Patrick, 1966-
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
ISBN
9780307272430
0307272435
0307272435
Publication Details
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Language
English
Description
xi, 398 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
DS480.84 .F75 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
954.04
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-377) and index.
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Table of Contents
Pt. 1. Rashtra: nation. Accelerated history
There will be blood
The centrifuge
Family politics
pt. 2. Lakshmi: wealth.
The visions of John Maynard Keynes
A dismal prospect
Falcon 900
A quarry near Mysore
pt. 3. Samaj: society. The outcastes' revenge
4ever
Solace of religion
Only in India.
There will be blood
The centrifuge
Family politics
pt. 2. Lakshmi: wealth.
The visions of John Maynard Keynes
A dismal prospect
Falcon 900
A quarry near Mysore
pt. 3. Samaj: society. The outcastes' revenge
4ever
Solace of religion
Only in India.