The billionaire raj : a journey through India's new gilded age
Crabtree, James2018
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Click and Collect for The billionaire raj : a journey through India's new gilded ageThis is a evealing 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 shared, and the country's top 1% now own nearly 60% of its wealth. In megacities like Mumbai, where half the population live in slums, the extraordinary riches of India's new dynasties echo the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers of yesterday, funneling profits from huge conglomerates into lifestyles of conspicuous consumption. James Crabtree's The Billionaire Raj takes readers on a personal journey to meet these reclusive billionaires, fugitive tycoons, and shadowy political power brokers. From the sky terrace of the world's most expensive home to impoverished villages and mass political rallies, Crabtree dramatizes the battle between crony capitalists and economic reformers, revealing a tense struggle between equality and privilege playing out against a combustible backdrop of aspiration, class, and caste. This is a vivid account of a divided society on the cusp of transformation--and a struggle that will shape not just India's future, but the world's.
The billionaire raj : a journey through India's new gilded age / James Crabtree.
London : One World Publications, 2018.
xxv, 357 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-317) and index.
97817860738089781786075291
330.954
English
341619
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Sandringham Library | Adult Non Fiction - Computers and Business | 330.954 CRA | Available |
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