There can be few more discussed countries in the world today than India. In recent years it has shed its popular image as a poor, tradition-bound backwater to stand poised on the threshold of super-power status, rivalled only by China as the greatest winner in the post-Cold War world order. In "Vishnu's Crowded Temple" Maria Misra has written the ...
This is a study of the political and economic activities of an important group of British businessmen in India between 1850 and 1960. Though denounced by Indian nationalists as the economic arm of the British Raj, the firms of these 'Managing Agents' seemed unassailable before the First World War. However, during the inter-war period they rapidly ...
There can be few more discussed countries in the world today than India. From being a seemingly closed off, economically stagnant part of Asia, with intractable problems of poverty and population, India has in a short space of time reached an astonishing level of growth, taking with China the lion's share of the benefits from post-Cold War ...
With over a billion people, 21st-century India stands on the verge of being one of the worlds newest superpowers. In the sixty years since its independence, it has transformed into a modern nation with limitless resources-yet it is also a nation of extremes. India embodies 15 official languages, over 166 million mobile phone users, and an ...
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