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020			_a9780141992624
028			_a: Zafaa Books & Distributors _b: 313/103A, H.No. 15, Tulsi Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi. _c: ZBD0119 _d: 29/07/2024
082			_a330.954 DRE
100			_aDreze, Jean.
100			_a; Sen, Amartya.
245			_a An Uncertain Glory _b: India and its Contradictions. _c/Jean Dreze.
260			_aEngland _b: Penguins Book Ltd. _c, 2020.
300			_axxxi, 437p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b559
520			_a'Magnificent ... a major work by two of the world's most perceptive and intelligent India-watchers writing today' William Dalrymple, New Statesman From two of India's leading economists, Jean Drèze and Nobel Prize-winner Amartya Sen, An Uncertain Glory is a passionate, considered argument for the need for a greater understanding of inequalities in India. When India regained independence from colonial rule in 1947, it immediately adopted a firmly democratic political system, with multiple parties, freedom of speech and extensive political rights. The famines of the British era disappeared, and steady economic growth replaced stagnation, accelerating further over the last three decades to make India's growth the second fastest among large economies. Despite a recent dip, it is still one of the highest in the world. Maintaining rapid yet environmentally sustainable growth remains an important and achieveable goal for India. Drèze and Sen argue that the country's main problems lie in the disregarding of the essential needs of the people. There have been major failures both to foster participatory growth and to make good use of the public resources generated by economic growth to enhance people's living conditions; social and physical services remain inadequate, from schooling and medical care to safe water, electricity, and sanitation. In the long run, even high economic growth is threatened by the underdevelopment of infrastructure and the neglect of human capabilities, in contrast with the holistic approach pioneered by Japan, South Korea and China. In a democracy, addressing these failures requires not only significant policy change, but also a clearer public understanding of the abysmal extent of deprivation in the country. Yet public discussion in India tends to be constricted to the lives and concerns of the relatively affluent. This book presents a powerful analysis not only of India's deprivations and inequalities, but also of the restraints on addressing them - and of the possibility of change through democratic practice.
650			_aIndia and Its contradictions
650			_aIndia
650			_aEconomists
700			_aJean Dreze
942			_cBOOK
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