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The billionaire Raj : a journey through India's new gilded age / James Crabtree.
Lippincott Library HC440.I5 C73 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crabtree, James, 1977- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Income distribution--India.
- Income distribution.
- India.
- Equality--India.
- Equality.
- Poverty--India.
- Poverty.
- India--Economic conditions.
- Economic conditions.
- Social classes--India.
- Social classes.
- India--Economic conditions--1991-.
- India--Social conditions--1947-.
- Social conditions.
- Billionaires.
- Economic history.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 408 pages : map ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Tim Duggan Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018]
- Summary:
- "A colorful and revealing portrait of India's new billionaire class, in a nation torn by radical inequality"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part I: Robber barons. Ambaniland ; The good times begin ; Rise of the Bollygarchs
- Part II: Political machines. India modified ; The season of scams ; Money power politics ; Cronyism goes south
- Part III: A new gilded age. House of debt ; The anxious tycoons ; More than a game ; The nation wants to know ; The tragedies of Modi
- Conclusion: A progressive era?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-390) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781524760069
- 1524760064
- OCLC:
- 1035944069
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