In Spite of the Gods; The Strange Rise of Modern India
Language: English
Published by Doubleday, New York, 2007
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x, [4], 383, [3] pages. Illustrations (with color). DJ has some wear and creasing near bottom spine. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Inscription reads To Helena - I much enjoyed meeting you! Best wishes--[signed with initials]. Includes Preface and Introduction. as well as Notes and Index. Chapters cover Global and Medieval; The Long Tentacles of India's state; Battles of the Righteous; The Imaginary Horse: The Continuing Threat of Hindu Nationalism; Long Live the Sycophants! The Congress Party's Continuing Love Affair with the Nehru-Gandhi Dynasty; Many Crescents: South Asia's Divided Muslims; A Triangular Dance; Why India's Relations with the United States and China Will Shape the World in the Twenty-first Century; New India, Old India: The Many-Layered Character of Indian Modernity; and Conclusion: Hers to Lose: India's Huge Opportunities and Challenges in the Twenty-first Century. Also contains Notes and Index. Edward Luce (born 1 June 1968) is an English journalist and the Financial Times chief US commentator and columnist based in Washington, D.C. Before that he was the Financial Times' Washington bureau chief, and South Asia bureau chief based in New Delhi. This book is sure to be acknowledged for years as the definitive introduction to modern India. Luce shows that India is an economic viral to the United States in an entirely different sense from China. There is nothing in India like the manufacturing capacity of China, despite the huge potential labor force. An inept system of public education leaves most Indians illiterate and unskilled. Above all, this book is an enlightening study of the forces shaping India as it tries to balance the stubborn traditions of the past with an unevenly modernizing present. Deeply informed by scholarship and history, the book shows that India has huge opportunities as well as tremendous challenges that make the future "hers to lose." India remains a mystery to many Americans, even as it is poised to become the world's third largest economy within a generation, outstripping Japan. It will surpass China in population by 2032 and will have more English speakers than the United States by 2050. In In Spite of the Gods, Edward Luce, a journalist who covered India for many years, makes brilliant sense of India and its rise to global power. Already a number-one bestseller in India, his book is sure to be acknowledged for years as the definitive introduction to modern India. In Spite of the Gods illuminates a land of many contradictions. The booming tech sector we read so much about in the West, Luce points out, employs no more than one million of India's 1.1 billion people. Only 35 million people, in fact, have formal enough jobs to pay taxes, while three-quarters of the country lives in extreme deprivation in India's 600,000 villages. Yet amid all these extremes exists the world's largest experiment in representative democracy and a largely successful one, despite bureaucracies riddled with horrifying corruption. Luce shows that India is an economic rival to the U.S. in an entirely different sense than China is. There is nothing in India like the manufacturing capacity of China, despite the huge potential labor force. An inept system of public education leaves most Indians illiterate and unskilled. Yet at the other extreme, the middle class produces ten times as many engineering students a year as the United States. Notwithstanding its future as a major competitor in a globalized economy, American. leaders have been encouraging India's rise, even welcoming it into the nuclear energy club, hoping to balance China's influence in Asia.…
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- Title
- In Spite of the Gods; The Strange Rise of Modern India
- Author
- Luce, Edward
- Publisher
- Doubleday, New York
- Publication year
- 2007
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- Very good
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Signed
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
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- 0385514743
- ISBN 13
- 9780385514743
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- Margo Silver (Jacket photograph)
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India remains a mystery to many Americans, even as it is poised to become the worlds third largest economy within a generation, outstripping Japan. It will surpass China in population by 2032 and will have more English speakers than the United States by 2050. In In Spite of the Gods, Edward Luce, a journalist who covered India for many years, makes brilliant sense of India and its rise to global power. Already a number-one bestseller in India, his book is sure to be acknowledged for years as the definitive introduction to modern India.
In Spite of the Gods illuminates a land of many contradictions. The booming tech sector we read so much about in the West, Luce points out, employs no more than one million of Indias 1.1 billion people. Only 35 million people, in fact, have formal enough jobs to pay taxes, while three-quarters of the country lives in extreme deprivation in Indias 600,000 villages. Yet amid all these extremes exists the worlds largest experiment in representative democracyand a largely successful one, despite bureaucracies riddled with horrifying corruption.
Luce shows that India is an economic rival to the U.S. in an entirely different sense than China is. There is nothing in India like the manufacturing capacity of China, despite the huge potential labor force. An inept system of public education leaves most Indians illiterate and unskilled. Yet at the other extreme, the middle class produces ten times as many engineering students a year as the United States. Notwithstanding its future as a major competitor in a globalized economy, American. leaders have been encouraging Indias rise, even welcoming it into the nuclear energy club, hoping to balance Chinas influence in Asia.
Above all, In Spite of the Gods is an enlightening study of the forces shaping India as it tries to balance the stubborn traditions of the past with an unevenly modernizing present. Deeply informed by scholarship and history, leavened by humor and rich in anecdote, it shows that India has huge opportunities as well as tremendous challenges that make the future hers to lose.
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About the Author
EDWARD LUCE is the Washington commentator for the Financial Times. He was the papers South Asia bureau chief, based in New Delhi, between 2001 and 2006. From 19992000, Luce worked in the Clinton administration as the speechwriter to Treasury secretary Larry Summers. Oxford educated and married into an Indian family, he now lives in Washington, D.C.
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