Planet India
Subtitle: the turbulent rise of the world's largest democracy
By: Mira Kamdar
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781847370686
Subjects: Social change; Social conditions; Economic conditions; Foreign relations; Economic history; Diplomatic relations
Description: India is everywhere: on magazine covers and cinema marquees, at the gym and in the kitchen, in corporate boardrooms and on Capitol Hill. Through incisive reportage and illuminating analysis, Mira Kamdar explores India's astonishing transformation from a developing country into a global powerhouse. She takes us inside India, reporting on the people, companies, and policies defining the new India and revealing how it will profoundly affect our future -- financially, culturally, politically. The world's fastest-growing democracy, India has the youngest population on the planet, and a middle class as big as the population of the entire United States. Its market has the potential to become the world's largest. As one film producer told Kamdar when they met in New York, &#x2033;Who needs the American audience? There are only 300 million people here.&#x2033; Not only is India the ideal market for the next new thing, but with a highly skilled English-speaking workforce, elite educational institutions, and growing foreign investment, India is emerging as an innovator of the technology that is driving the next phase of the global economy."--From source other than the Library of Congress.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-308) and index.
Table of contents: title: Life on Planet India; title: Indians and Americans; title: India imagines the future; title: Retailing India; title: 600,000 villages; title: The cities; title: The other India; title: Power; title: As goes India, so goes the world.