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An Uncertain Glory - India and its Contradictions (Paperback)
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An Uncertain Glory - India and its Contradictions (Paperback)
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When India became independent in 1947 after two centuries of
colonial rule, it immediately adopted a firmly democratic political
system, with multiple parties, freedom of speech, and extensive
political rights. The famines of the British era disappeared, and
steady economic growth replaced the economic stagnation of the Raj.
The growth of the Indian economy quickened further over the last
three decades and became the second fastest among large economies.
Despite a recent dip, it is still one of the highest in the world.
Maintaining rapid as well as environmentally sustainable growth
remains an important and achievable goal for India. In An Uncertain
Glory, two of India's leading economists argue that the country's
main problems lie in the lack of attention paid to the essential
needs of the people, especially of the poor, and often of women.
There have been major failures both to foster participatory growth
and to make good use of the public resources generated by economic
growth to enhance people's living conditions. There is also a
continued inadequacy of social services such as schooling and
medical care as well as of physical services such as safe water,
electricity, drainage, transportation, and sanitation. In the long
run, even the feasibility of high economic growth is threatened by
the underdevelopment of social and physical infrastructure and the
neglect of human capabilities, in contrast with the Asian approach
of simultaneous pursuit of economic growth and human development,
as pioneered by Japan, South Korea, and China. In a democratic
system, which India has great reason to value, addressing these
failures requires not only significant policy rethinking by the
government, but also a clearer public understanding of the abysmal
extent of social and economic deprivations in the country. The deep
inequalities in Indian society tend to constrict public discussion,
confining it largely to the lives and concerns of the relatively
affluent. Dreze and Sen present a powerful analysis of these
deprivations and inequalities as well as the possibility of change
through democratic practice.
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