India: the road ahead - Mark Tully

India: the road ahead

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2012
Rider & Co (Verlag)
978-1-84604-162-4 (ISBN)
19,90 inkl. MwSt
Since the Indian economy was liberated from bureaucratic, socialist controls in 1991, it has developed rapidly. A country once renowned for the backwardness of its industries, its commerce and its financial market is now viewed as potentially one of the major world economies of the twenty-first century.

But there are many questions which need to be asked about the sustainability of this rapid economic growth and its effect on the stability of the country. Have the changes had any impact on the poor and marginalised? Can India's democracy contain the mounting resentment of those left out of the new economic order? Can a high growth rate be sustained with India's notoriously corrupt and inefficient governance? Can the development of its creaking infrastructure be speeded up? How is India going to feed itself unless agriculture is reformed?

This timely book will answer these questions through interviews with industrialists and cricketers, God men and farmers, plutocrats and former untouchables. Full of fascinating stories of real people at a time of great change, it will be of interest to economists, business people, diplomats, politicians, as well as to those who love to travel and who take an interest in the rapid growth of one of the world's largest countries, and what this means to us in the West.

Sir Mark Tully was born in Calcutta, India in 1935. He was the Chief of Bureau, BBC, New Delhi for twenty-two years and is an acclaimed author and the regular presenter of the contemplative BBC Radio 4 programme Something Understood. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2005, and was knighted in the New Year Honours list in 2002. In addition to his distinguished broadcasting career, he has written several books about India, including No Full Stops in India, India in Slow Motion (with his partner and colleague Gillian Wright), and The Heart of India. He lives in New Delhi.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 7.6.2012
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 126 x 198 mm
Gewicht 219 g
Themenwelt Reisen Reiseberichte Asien
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geografie / Kartografie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 1-84604-162-7 / 1846041627
ISBN-13 978-1-84604-162-4 / 9781846041624
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