LEADER 03917cam a22003374a 4500003 hubpceuo 005 20200929132735.0 007 ta 008 080506s2008 nyuab b 001 0 eng 010 2008273677 020 9781400079773 (pbk.) 040 DLC |cDLC |dDLC 043 a-ii--- 050 00 HC435.3 |b.L83 2008 082 00 954.05/3 |222 100 1 Luce, Edward, |d1968- 245 10 In spite of the gods : |bthe rise of modern India / |cEdward Luce. 250 1st Anchor Books ed. 260 New York : |bAnchor Books, |c2008. 300 x, 383 p. : |bill., map ; |c21 cm. 505 0 Global and medieval : India's schizophrenic economy -- The Burra Sahibs : the long tentacles of India's state -- Battles of the righteous : the rise of India's lower castes -- The imaginary horse : the continuing threat of Hindu nationalism -- Long live the sycophants! : The Congress Party's continuing love affairs 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 -- Conclusion : hers to lose : India's huge opportunities and challenges in the 21st century. 520 "India remains a mystery to many Americans, even as it is poised to become the worldʼs 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 Indiaʼs 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 Indiaʼs 600,000 villages. Yet amid all these extremes exists the worldʼs largest experiment in representative democracy-and a largely successful one, despite bureaucracies riddled with horrifying corruption." 520 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 Indiaʼs rise, even welcoming it into the nuclear energy club, hoping to balance Chinaʼs 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 ʺhers to lose.ʺ 651 0 India |xEconomic conditions |y21st century. 651 0 India |xCivilization. 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6954_050000000000000_3_LUC |70 |8GEN |9129710OSA |bOSA |d2020-09-29 |eOSA |l0 |o954.05/3 LUC |r2020-09-29 |w2020-09-29 |yBK |zDonation of School of Public Policy. |cOSA Repository 920 01 MomEWroD 992 01 954_050000000000000_3_LUC |bQUV_ZUZZZZZZZZZZZZZ_W_E5N 966 |cIn the Research Room