Churning the earth : the making of global India. / Aseem Shrivastava.
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TextPublisher number: : Zafaa Books & Distributors | : 313/56F,Anand Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi-110035Publication details: , New Delhi : Penguin , 2012Description: xxi, 394 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: 9780143422709Subject(s): Economic history | Globalization Environmental aspects | India Economic conditions 21st century | Economic development Environmental aspectsDDC classification: 363.70 SHR Summary: Dazzled by India's meteoric economic rise, we hesitate to acknowledge its costs to the people and the environment. Churning the Earth engages in a timely inquiry and presents incontrovertible evidence on how the nature of this recent growth has been predatory. Unfettered development has damaged the ecological basis that makes life possible for hundreds of millions and has increased the chasm between the rich and the poor, threatening the future of India as a civilization
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Dazzled by India's meteoric economic rise, we hesitate to acknowledge its costs to the people and the environment. Churning the Earth engages in a timely inquiry and presents incontrovertible evidence on how the nature of this recent growth has been predatory. Unfettered development has damaged the ecological basis that makes life possible for hundreds of millions and has increased the chasm between the rich and the poor, threatening the future of India as a civilization
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