Poverty Amid Plenty in the New India (SOUTH ASIA EDITION)

India has one of the fastest growing economies on earth. Over the past three decades socialism has been replaced by pro-business policies as the way forward. And yet in this new India grinding poverty is still a feature of everyday life. Some 450 million people subsist on less than $1.25 per day and nearly half of Indias children are malnourished. In his latest book Atul Kohli a seasoned scholar of Indian politics and economics blames this discrepancy on the narrow nature of the ruling alliance in India that in its new-found relationship with business has prioritized economic growth above all other social and political considerations. This thoughtful and challenging book affords an alternative vision of Indias rise in the world that its democratic rulers will be forced to come to grips with in the years ahead.