A sixth of humanity : independent India's development odyssey / Devesh Kapur and Arvind Subramanian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kapur, Devesh, 1959- author.

Subramanian, Arvind, author.

Series:

Modern South Asia series

Modern South Asia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--India.

Economic development.

India--History--20th century.

India.

India--21st century.

Physical Description:

799 pages : illustrations, charts ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2026]

Summary:

"India's journey has been distinctively precocious among its peers. It opted for democracy before development and social change, promoted high-skilled services before and over low-skilled manufacturing, and chose a globalization that favored the export of talented people and short-changed the poor. Its 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 degree of social and political order. Four decades of economic dynamism and the emergence of a more capable Indian state has given it the ability to build infrastructure and deliver the essentials of life to its population at scale. However, just as India's aspiration has lifted to building world-class statues, temples, bullet trains, airports and digital systems, the undermining of some of its real achievements of democracy, federalism and nation-building still stand in the way. As the world gets radically upended, India's development odyssey sits at a critical juncture. In A Sixth of Humanity, Devesh Kapur and Avrind Subramanian trace how one of the world's largest and most diverse countries uniquely attempted four concurrent transformations: building a state, creating an economy, changing society and forging a sense of nationhood. In outlining its past by drawing on deep archives of political and economic policy documents spaning over 75 years, Kapur and Subramanian provide a compelling picture of the state of India's political economy and the crossroads it now faces" -- Publisher's website.

Contents:

Origins and order

State, market and economy

State, society and development

Nation of Indias

Conclusions

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780197837252

0197837255

9780197837276

0197837271

9780197837269

0197837263

OCLC:

1581192782

Publisher Number:

90104771749