India Unbound

The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age
 
ISBN: 9780143063018
Publisher: Penguin Books India		 ISBN: 0385720742
Publisher: Anchor Books - A Divison of Random House Inc, New York

India today is a vibrant free-market democracy and has begun to flex its muscles in the global information economy and on the world stage. Now, acclaimed columnist Gurcharan Das traces India's recent social and economic transformations in an eminently readable, impassioned narrative.
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Bengali Edition
ISBN: 9788177562644		 French Edition
ISBN: 9782283022665		 Hindi Edition
ISBN: 8176211249
Publisher: Full circle 
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ISBN: 9784904213049		 Malayalam Edition
ISBN: 8126407247		 Punjabi Edition
ISBN: 8171420990
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"[An] insightful guide to a rapidly changing nation... Something tremendous is happening in India, and Das, with his keen eye and often elegant prose, has his finger firmly on the pulse of the transformation."
-The New York Times Book Review

 

"One of the most readable and insightful books to appear on India's tortuous economic path in its 54 years since shaking off British rule... India Unbound excels when Das describes his and other industrialists' maddening experiences under the so-called License Raj, when any product launch or expansion needed state approval... Das is exuberant about what is happening today... While the book is hopeful, he also makes it clear throughout that India, Internet or no, still has lots of work to do before its renaissance is secure."
-- Business Week

 

"INDIA UNBOUND is a lively, interesting and well documented answer “the first of its kind“ to a key question: why was India rich, why is it poor, when will it be rich again? It is also full of the kind of stories which make that fascinating country come alive for the reader."
-- Olivier Bernier, author of "The World in 1800"

India today is a vibrant free-market democracy and has begun to flex its muscles in the global information economy and on the world stage. Now, acclaimed columnist Gurcharan Das traces India's recent social and economic transformations in an eminently readable, impassioned narrative.

Das tells the stories of the major players in a period of rapid and profound change—from early days of Independence to the current software impresarios—and makes comprehensible and compelling the economic and political developments responsible for these changes. He weaves his personal story into the larger context of contemporary history: his family's move t America in the mid-1950s, his education at Harvard, his years in India as a young marketing executive wrestling with a socialist system he feared would undermine the country's vast potential. He also shows us the reasons behind his optimism for his nation's future, among which is the exciting landscape of information technology today.

Das argues that the changes of the past fifty years have, at last, amounted to a revolution—and it is one that has not been chronicled before. With India Unbound, he gives us a book that is at once vigorously analytical and vividly written—an essential insider's road map to India, then and now.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction: The Wise Elephant
    2. Part One: Our Spring of Hope (1942-65)
    1. Ranting in English, Chanting in Sanskrit
    2. Smells of the Bazaar
    3. The Train to Nowhere
    4. Blind Then, Blind Now
    5. If We Were Once Rich, Why Are We Now Poor?
    6. The Paper Route
    7. Capitalism for the Rich, Socialism for the Poor
      8. Part Two: The Lost Generation (1966-91)
    8. Bazaar Power
    9. Lerma Rojo and Taichung Native No. 1
    10. Caste
    11. Multiplying by Zero
    12. Merchants of Marwar
    13. Dreams in Kabutarkhana
    14. Licensing Blues
      15. Part Three: The Rebirth of Dreams (1991-99)
    15. The Golden Summer of 1991
    16. A Million Reformers
    17. New Money
    18. Old Money
    19. The Rise and Rise of a Middle Class
    20. Modern vs. Western
    21. Democracy First, Capitalism Afterwards
    22. Knowledge is Wealth
    23. A New Country