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Can one of the most divided nations on the planet become its next superpower? James Crabtree reveals the titans of politics and industry shaping India in a period of breakneck change from controversial prime minister Narendra Modi, victor in the largest election in history, to the leading lights of the country's burgeoning billionaire class. While King of the Good Times Vijay Mallya languishes in exile in Britain, other major Bollygarchs prosper at home despite a series of scandals.

A colorful and revealing portrait of the rise of India's new billionaire class in a radically unequal society 'An enlightening and engaging story of wealth and poverty in India' -Amartaya Sen, Winner of Nobel Prize in Economics It is bound to become a classic.' - Jagdish Bhagwati, author of In...

A colorful and revealing portrait of the rise of India’s new billionaire class in a radically unequal society India is the world’s largest democracy, with more than one billion people and an economy expanding faster than China’s. But the rewards of this growth have been far from evenly...

Modi's demonetization policy has proved to be one of the most disruptive experiments in recent economic history, and one from which his administration now risks learning all the wrong lessons.