In Spite of the Gods
The Strange Rise of Modern India
The Financial Times correspondent's account of how India's economy actually works, and why it grew in ways no model predicted.
Luce covered India for the Financial Times and married into the country, and the book has the texture of someone who travelled it rather than read about it. It explains an economy that grew without the manufacturing boom every model expected, and a state that is simultaneously overbearing and absent.
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William Dalrymple
Like Partition, this story has been much told, but Edward Luce’s account is authoritative, balanced, sensible and enjoyable. If there is a businessman going to India who wants to get a hang of the economics of the country in an accessible form, this is the book, no question. Luce was the Financial Times correspondent, married to an Indian, and really got under the skin of the place, really travelled.
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