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The Caged Phoenix - Can India Fly? (Hardcover)
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The Caged Phoenix - Can India Fly? (Hardcover)
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Dipankar Gupta, one of India's foremost thinkers on social and
economic issues, takes a critical—and controversial—look at the
limits of the Indian success story in The Caged Phoenix. Through a
fine blend of theory and new evidence on small scale industries,
farming, and more, Gupta argues that, despite the promise of
Independence and liberalization, India continues to remain caged in
backwardness. In short, the country's phenomenal growth story has
not translated into development. Questioning prevailing
culture-based theories—and the academics who perpetuate
them—that are used to explain India's poverty and its hampered
development, Gupta attempts to "normalize" India, advocating a
rigorous rejection of justifications that rely upon cultural
otherness and exoticization. He critically examines the reluctance
to acknowledge that structural impediments, not cultural factors,
deny growth benefits to the majority of Indians, and explores the
close link between growth in high technology sectors of the Indian
economy on one side and sweat shops and rural stagnation on the
other. Making a comparison with the developed West, Gupta
underscores the point that affluence can be achieved only after
living conditions improve across all social classes. Combining
original scholarship with a lively narrative, Gupta debunks
widespread myths about why India's democracy has yet to deliver and
offers compelling explanations for the paradoxes that exist.
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