Planet India
eBook - ePub

Planet India

The Turbulent Rise of the World's Largest Democracy

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Planet India

The Turbulent Rise of the World's Largest Democracy

About this book

India is everywhere - Indian studios produce animated features and special effects for Hollywood movies; Indian software manages our health records; and Indian customer service centres answer our calls. A country of English speakers and a free-market democracy, with the youngest population on Earth, India is not only the fastest growing market for the next new thing, but a source for the technological innovation that will drive the global economy.

Yet, India is also in a race against time to bring the benefits of the twenty-first century to the 800 million Indians who live on less than £1 per day, and it must do so in a way that is environmentally sustainable and politically viable on a scale never before achieved. If India succeeds, it will not only save itself, it may save us all. If it fails, we will all suffer. As goes India, so goes the world.

Like CHINA, INC, published in 2006 by S&S, PLANET INDIA will capture and catalyze the growing interest in this rising power. With in-depth research, interviews and provocative analysis, Mira Kamdar offers a penetrating view of India and its cultural and economic impact on the world. From Bollywood to the Indian diaspora to India's effect on global politics she reports on the people, companies and places shaping the new India. Kamdar examines the challenges India faces while celebrating India's tremendous vitality and the opportunities this Asian democracy has to shape its own and all of our destinies.

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Year
2008
Print ISBN
9781847390776
eBook ISBN
9781847396006

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Author’s Note
  5. IntroductionLife on Planet India
  6. Chapter One: Indians and Americans
  7. Chapter Two: India Imagines the Future
  8. Chapter Three: Retailing India
  9. Chapter Four: 600,000 Villages
  10. Chapter Five: The Cities
  11. Chapter Six: The Other India
  12. Chapter Seven: Power
  13. Conclusion: As Goes India, So Goes the World
  14. Acknowledgments
  15. Notes
  16. Selected Bibliography
  17. Index

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