Book description
Since the Indian economy was liberated from bureaucratic, socialist
controls in 1991, it has developed rapidly. A country once renowned
for the backwardness of its industries, its commerce and its financial
market is now viewed as potentially one of the major world economies
of the twenty-first century.
But there are many questions which need to be asked about the
sustainability of this rapid economic growth and its effect on the
stability of the country. Have the changes had any impact on the poor
and marginalised? Can India's democracy contain the mounting
resentment of those left out of the new economic order? Can a high
growth rate be sustained with India's notoriously corrupt and
inefficient governance? Can the development of its creaking
infrastructure be speeded up? How is India going to feed itself unless
agriculture is reformed?
This timely book will answer these questions through interviews with
industrialists and cricketers, God men and farmers, plutocrats and
former untouchables. Full of fascinating stories of real people at a
time of great change, it will be of interest to economists, business
people, diplomats, politicians, as well as to those who love to travel
and who take an interest in the rapid growth of one of the world's
largest countries, and what this means to us in the West.
Sir Mark Tully was born in Calcutta, India in 1935. He was the Chief
of Bureau, BBC, New Delhi for twenty-two years and is an acclaimed
author and the regular presenter of the contemplative BBC Radio 4
programme
Something Understood
. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2005, and was knighted in the New
Year Honours list in 2002. In addition to his distinguished broadcasting
career, he has written several books about India, including
No Full
Stops in India
,
India in Slow Motion
(with his partner and colleague Gillian Wright), and
The Heart of India
. He lives in New Delhi.
