A jaw-dropping look at the spectacular growth of wealth in India since the mid-1990s.
Tarquin Hall, Sunday Times
Compelling... Crabtree has given us the most comprehensive and eminently readable tour of economic India.
Lord Desai, Financial Times
Can one of the most divided nations on the planet become its next superpower? James Crabtree reveals the titans of politics and industry shaping India in a period of breakneck change from controversial prime minister Narendra Modi, victor in the largest election in history, to the leading lights of the country s burgeoning billionaire class.
While King of the Good Times Vijay Mallya languishes in exile in Britain, other major Bollygarchs prosper at home despite a series of scandals. Issuing jewel-encrusted invitations to their children s weddings, these tycoons exert huge power in both business and politics.
But India s explosive economic rise has driven inequality to new extremes. Millions remain trapped in slums and corruption is endemic. Reformers fight to wrest the nation from these dark forces, leaving its fate poised between that of a prosperous democratic giant and a saffron-tinged version of Russia.
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Compelling...vivid...Crabtree has given us the most comprehensive and eminently readable tour of economic India.
(Financial Times)Timely reading...Crabtree s eye for detail...gives some nice close ups...With so many tasty details, it is the right sort of snack to fill a hole as we watch and wait.
(The Times)The analysis really sings when Mr Crabtree finds new ways to capture the collision of profits, politics and public opinion. His account of India s cut-throat network-TV industry, through the eyes of a star presenter, is thrilling.
(The Economist)A pacey and perspicacious account... Crabtree s unique achievement is to probe the peculiarities of Indian cronyism and lay out its structural causes... For sheer chutzpah, India s billionaires provide tremendous value. All this makes for a thoroughly entertaining book, but also for a sadly enfeebled and unequal nation.
(Oliver Balch, Literary Review)'An eye-opening book from someone who clearly loves his subject.'
(Prospect)An excellent survey of India s economic and political transformation... Crabtree s Indian story is a cautionary tale of globalization s excesses and the consequences for one of the world s most unequal societies.
(Washington Post)A lively and valuable blend of the empirical and the anecdotal... The best parts of Mr. Crabtree s book, however, aren t his observations on the civic state of India (although these are certainly valuable and wise). They are his reportage, in which he relates his encounters with several of the men who are emblematic of the billionaire raj.
(Wall Street Journal)A nuanced portrait...chock-full of profoundly revealing vignettes from various corners of India s endlessly diverse society and economy.
--(New York Times)James Crabtree, once a hugely-admired star foreign correspondent, has transformed himself into a brilliant writer and analyst of the Indian super-rich. This timely, fascinating and eye-opening book is also a rarity for a book about money wonderfully witty and beautifully written.
--(William Dalrymple)An enlightening and engaging story of wealth and poverty in India, but also a sad indictment of the power of inequity in subduing and overwhelming its areas of success.
--(Amartya Sen, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics)James Crabtree spent five years in India as Mumbai bureau chief for the Financial Times. He is now an associate professor of practice at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore. He has written for Wired, Foreign Policy, and The Economist, among other publications. @jamescrabtree
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