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In spite of the gods : (Record no. 4278)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2008273677
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781400079773 (pbk.)
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Original cataloging agency DLC
Transcribing agency DLC
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050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number HC435.3
Item number .L83 2008
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 954.05/3
Edition number 22
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Luce, Edward,
Dates associated with a name 1968-
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title In spite of the gods :
Remainder of title the rise of modern India /
Statement of responsibility, etc Edward Luce.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1st Anchor Books ed.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Anchor Books,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2008.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent x, 383 p. :
Other physical details ill., map ;
Dimensions 21 cm.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Global and medieval : India's schizophrenic economy -- The Burra Sahibs : the long tentacles of India's state -- Battles of the righteous : the rise of India's lower castes -- The imaginary horse : the continuing threat of Hindu nationalism -- Long live the sycophants! : The Congress Party's continuing love affairs with the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty -- Many crescents : South Asia's divided Muslims -- A triangular dance : why India's relations with the United States and China will shape the world in the twenty first century -- New India, old India : the many-layered character of Indian modernity -- Conclusion : hers to lose : India's huge opportunities and challenges in the 21st century.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "India remains a mystery to many Americans, even as it is poised to become the worldʼs third largest economy within a generation, outstripping Japan. It will surpass China in population by 2032 and will have more English speakers than the United States by 2050. In In Spite of the Gods, Edward Luce, a journalist who covered India for many years, makes brilliant sense of India and its rise to global power. Already a number-one bestseller in India, his book is sure to be acknowledged for years as the definitive introduction to modern India. In Spite of the Gods illuminates a land of many contradictions. The booming tech sector we read so much about in the West, Luce points out, employs no more than one million of Indiaʼs 1.1 billion people. Only 35 million people, in fact, have formal enough jobs to pay taxes, while three-quarters of the country lives in extreme deprivation in Indiaʼs 600,000 villages. Yet amid all these extremes exists the worldʼs largest experiment in representative democracy-and a largely successful one, despite bureaucracies riddled with horrifying corruption."--From source other than the Library of Congress
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Summary, etc Luce shows that India is an economic rival to the U.S. in an entirely different sense than China is. There is nothing in India like the manufacturing capacity of China, despite the huge potential labor force. An inept system of public education leaves most Indians illiterate and unskilled. Yet at the other extreme, the middle class produces ten times as many engineering students a year as the United States. Notwithstanding its future as a major competitor in a globalized economy, American. leaders have been encouraging Indiaʼs rise, even welcoming it into the nuclear energy club, hoping to balance Chinaʼs influence in Asia. Above all, In Spite of the Gods is an enlightening study of the forces shaping India as it tries to balance the stubborn traditions of the past with an unevenly modernizing present. Deeply informed by scholarship and history, leavened by humor and rich in anecdote, it shows that India has huge opportunities as well as tremendous challenges that make the future ʺhers to lose.ʺ
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Includes information on Afghanistan, agriculture, Bhimrao Ambedkar, Ayodhya, Bangalore, Bangladesh, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Brahmins, Buddhism, bureaucracy, George Bush, caste system, cattle, China, Christians, British colonialism, Congress Party, corruption, Dalits, democracy, economy, education, elections, electricity, equality, Indira Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, Great Britain, Gujarat, health care, Hindu nationalism, Hindus, Hinduism, industrialization, information technology, Japan, jobs, Kashmir, Kerala, literacy, lower castes, marriage, military, modernity, Narendra Modi, Mumbai (Bombay), Muslims, Jawaharlal Nehru, New Delhi, nuclear weapons, Pakistan, police, politics, poverty, Punjab, riots, roads, science, secularism, separatist insurgencies, Sikhs, Manmohan Singh, Soviet Union, taxes, television, terrorists, United States, upper castes, urbanization, Uttar Pradesh, Atal Behari Vajpayee, villages, water, etc.
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name India
General subdivision Economic conditions
Chronological subdivision 21st century.
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name India
General subdivision Civilization.
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