Capital The Eruption of Delhi

Name: Capital The Eruption of Delhi
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ISBN: 9781594204470

ISBN-10: 1594204470

ISBN-13: 9781594204470

Edition: 2014

Authors: Rana Dasgupta

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A portrait of Delhi and its new elitesand a story of global capitalism unboundCommonwealth Prizewinning author Rana Dasgupta examines one of the most important trends of our time: the growth of the global elite. Since the economic liberalization of 1991, wealth has poured into India, and especially into Delhi. Capital bears witness to the extraordinary transmogrification of India’s capital city, charting its emergence from a rural backwater to the center of the new Indian middle class. No other city on earth better embodies the breakneck, radically disruptive nature of the global economy’s growth over the past twenty years.India has not become a new America, though. It more closely…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/15/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Size: 5.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

RANA DASGUPTA won the 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book for his debut novel Solo. He is also the author of a collection of urban folktales, Tokyo Cancelled, which was shortlisted for the 2005 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Capital is his first work of non-fiction. Born in Canterbury, England, in 1971, he now lives in Delhi.