{"product_id":"wxu6zmqslknd","title":"A Sixth of Humanity : Independent India's Development Odyssey by Arvind Subramanian \u0026 Devesh Kapur [Hardcover]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is a deeply impressive work ... Every Indian who wishes to know their country better, to more fully understand its past, present, and possible future, should read it.--Ramachandra Guha\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA brilliant and breathtaking tour de force. You will never think about India or economic development in the same way again.--Simon Johnson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIndia's journey has been distinctively 'precocious' in comparative terms. It opted for democracy before development and social change, promoted high-skilled services before and over low-skilled manufacturing and chose a globalization that favoured exports of talented people and short-changed the poor. The socialist state became an inefficiently capitalist one before providing the public goods of physical infrastructure and human capital. The outcomes have been surprising, with the country achieving success in creating and sustaining democracy, albeit flawed, and maintaining a modicum of order.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFour decades of economic dynamism and the emergence of a somewhat more capable Indian state has meant that it is able to build infrastructure and deliver the essentials of life to its population at scale-still not without disappointments, but a massive improvement over the past. Just as India's aspiration has lifted to building 'world-class' statues, temples, bullet trains, airports and digital systems, the undermining of some of the real achievements of democracy, federalism and nation-building stand in the way.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs the world gets radically upended, India's development odyssey is at a critical juncture. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Sixth of Humanity\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an attempt to trace how one of the largest and most diverse countries in the world, uniquely and daringly, attempted four concurrent transformations-building a state, creating an economy, changing society and forging a sense of nationhood-under conditions of universal suffrage.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJointly written by political scientist Devesh Kapur and economist Arvind Subramanian, both of whom have decades of academic and policy experience, this book encompasses perspectives that span disciplines, experiences and geographies. Rigorously researched, carefully argued and lucidly written, this is the definitive development history of India. There is no book remotely like it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48329551151354,"sku":"WXU6ZMQSLKND","price":891.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/0473\/5226\/files\/WXU6ZMQSLKND-2.jpg?v=1763288024","url":"https:\/\/versoz.co.in\/products\/wxu6zmqslknd","provider":"VERSOZ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}