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India unbound / Gurcharan Das

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2001Edition: First American editionDescription: xix, 406 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 037541164X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.954
Contents:
Introduction : the wise elephant
Part I. Our spring of hope (1942-65)
Ranting in English, chanting in sanskrit
Smells of the bazaar
The train to nowhere
Blind then, blind now
If we were once rich, why are we now poor?
The paper route
Capitalism for the rich, socialism for the poor
Part II. The Lost Generation (1966-91)
Bazaar power
Lerma Rojo and Taichung Native no. 1
Caste
Multiplying by zero
Merchants of Marwar
Dreams in Kabutarkhana
Licensing blues
Part III. The rebirth of dreams (1991-99)
The golden summer of 1991
A million reformers
New money
Old money
The rise and rise of a middle class
Modern vs. Western
Democracy first, capitalism afterwards
Knowledge is wealth
A new country
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Book Book Pasong Tamo Branch Reference Section Circulation C 330.954 D229i 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 127046d

Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-387) and index.

Introduction : the wise elephant

Part I. Our spring of hope (1942-65)

Ranting in English, chanting in sanskrit

Smells of the bazaar

The train to nowhere

Blind then, blind now

If we were once rich, why are we now poor?

The paper route

Capitalism for the rich, socialism for the poor

Part II. The Lost Generation (1966-91)

Bazaar power

Lerma Rojo and Taichung Native no. 1

Caste

Multiplying by zero

Merchants of Marwar

Dreams in Kabutarkhana

Licensing blues

Part III. The rebirth of dreams (1991-99)

The golden summer of 1991

A million reformers

New money

Old money

The rise and rise of a middle class

Modern vs. Western

Democracy first, capitalism afterwards

Knowledge is wealth

A new country

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