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020			_a978-1503630055
082			_a330.954
100			_aMody, Ashoka
245			_aIndia is broken: A people betrayed, 1947 to today
260			_aCalifornia, _bStanford University Press: _c2023.
300			_axii, 512p., note., ind., 23 cm X 15 cm
500			_aRecommended by: Rasananda Panda
521			_aContent: Then and now, an introduction -- Part I. Fake socialism, 1947-1964. An uncertain beginning -- The path not taken -- Nehru's dangerous gamble -- Nehru doubles his bet -- Tagore's unheard song -- Mr. Nehru's tragedy, democracy's first betrayal -- Part II. Violence, 1964-1984.Shastri's brave transition -- Through the ferment, a savior rises -- India has an empress -- Anger meets repression -- An autocratic gamble fails -- Democracy betrays again, deindustrialization begins -- When the violence came home -- Part III. The promise, 1985-2004. A pilot flies into political headwinds -- Rajiv unleashes the gale force of Hindu nationalism -- A all-too-brief moment of sanity -- The promise has a dark underbelly -- No, India does not shine -- Part IV. Hubris, 2005 to the present. As two Indias drift apart, democracy creaks -- Modi pushes the economy off the edge -- Modi breaks India's fractured democracy -- COVID-19 bares the moral decay -- Epilogue : a feasible idealism.
650			_xIndia _xeconomic conditions _xeconomic policy-1947 _xpolitics and government
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