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India: a portrait
✍ Scribed by Patrick French
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Alfred A. Knopf
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 343 KB
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0307596648
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✦ Synopsis
A monumental biography of the subcontinent from the award-winning author of The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul.
Second only to China in the magnitude of its economic miracle and second to none in its potential to shape the new century, India is fast undergoing one of the most momentous transformations the world has ever seen. In this dazzlingly panoramic book, Patrick French chronicles that epic change, telling human stories to explain a larger national narrative.
Melding on-the-ground reports with a deep knowledge of history, French exposes the cultural foundations of India's political, economic and social complexities. He reveals how a nation identified with some of the most wretched poverty on earth has simultaneously developed an envied culture of entrepreneurship (here are stories like that of C. K. Ranganathan, who trudged the streets of Cuddalore in the 1980s selling sample packets of shampoo and now employs more than...
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