Gurcharan Das
Paperback | Pages: 432 pages Rating: 4.08 | 5546 Users | 317 Reviews
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| Original Title: | India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age |
| ISBN: | 0385720742 (ISBN13: 9780385720748) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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India today is a vibrant free-market democracy, a nation well on its way to overcoming decades of widespread poverty. The nation's rise is one of the great international stories of the late twentieth century, and in India Unbound the acclaimed columnist Gurcharan Das offers a sweeping economic history of India from independence to the new millennium.Das shows how India's policies after 1947 condemned the nation to a hobbled economy until 1991, when the government instituted sweeping reforms that paved the way for extraordinary growth. Das traces these developments and tells the stories of the major players from Nehru through today. As the former CEO of Proctor & Gamble India, Das offers a unique insider's perspective and he deftly interweaves memoir with history, creating a book that is at once vigorously analytical and vividly written. Impassioned, erudite, and eminently readable, India Unbound is a must for anyone interested in the global economy and its future.
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| Title | : | India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age |
| Author | : | Gurcharan Das |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 432 pages |
| Published | : | April 9th 2002 by Anchor Books (first published January 1st 2000) |
| Categories | : | Cultural. India. Nonfiction. History. Economics. Politics. Business. Asian Literature. Indian Literature |
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Ratings: 4.08 From 5546 Users | 317 ReviewsCriticism Appertaining To Books India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age
I am impressed by the author's style of narration. I can't think of any other book that deals with India's economic-political history in such an insightful fashion. The books is divided into three parts - Pre independence and Nehru Era, Nehru-Liberalization era and the post liberalization era. It does total justice to the first two parts and makes for a really gripping read. The third part is not as good as the first two parts, may be because, by the time he wrote the book the story was stillA very readable account of India through its journey as an independent nation. Informative yet gripping. Objective yet personal. If you are inquisitive about post-independence India, but don't know where to start, start here.
A businessman's understanding of India, from independence to the global information age. The book is 80% a critique (mostly criticism) of the Indian polity and economy, with a handful of let ups when it took up case studies of successful Indian business houses. The rest 20% is a pleasant memoir.
"They say that the measure of a civilization is how it treats its women. Since coming to Delhi I have met many women who long for Bombay. My wife explains that Bombay gives women dignity. If Bombay respects women, Delhi looks on them as sex objects. In Bombay, she can take a taxi at midnight; in Delhi a girl cannot walk freely on the street in the evening. It seems that it takes more than education to bring civilization." (pg 231) "It took Ramesh Chauhan decades of sweat, toil, and brand
'India Unbound' by Gurcharan Das turned out to be an interesting and engaging read which felt bit drab in the beginning. It is a very useful read to every Indian who wants to know why India still lags far behind China economically, and other poor countries than India like Bangladesh, socially. It succinctly chronicles the reasons for India's poor economic growth between post-independence and 1991. The book also brings out the necessary strategies for entrepreneurial success and the reforms
To be frank, this is not my genre and being an engineer, this is my first foray into world of economics. But still i wanted to try this because of its span, spread right from independence of India till liberation (from archaic license raj). And it is surely a ride ! Keeps you engaged despite many paragraphs of figures numbers and personal commentary. Honestly, yes, i have been skipping pages, mostly in last section. But still, an enriching read for sure.
This was suggested to me by a friend when i shared my enthusiasm about reading India after gandhi and a work on Nehru by Walter Crocker. Those two books instilled in me a huge respect for Nehru for preserving democracy and free speech in our country when all the socialist oriented nations were paradoxically killing social liberalism. This book has given a glimpse onto economic conditions of india while the other two were much more oriented towards political and foreign policies of independent
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