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An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions

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By (author): Amartya Sen Jean Dreze

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'Magnificent ... a major work by two of the world's most perceptive and intelligent India-watchers writing today' William Dalrymple, New Statesman


From two of India's leading economists, Jean Drèze and Nobel Prize-winner Amartya Sen, An Uncertain Glory is a passionate, considered argument for the need for a greater understanding of inequalities in India.

When India regained independence from colonial rule in 1947, 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 stagnation, accelerating further over the last three decades to make India's growth the second fastest among large economies. Despite a recent dip, it is still one of the highest in the world.

Maintaining rapid yet environmentally sustainable growth remains an important and achieveable goal for India. Drèze and Sen argue that the country's main problems lie in the disregarding of the essential needs of the people. 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; social and physical services remain inadequate, from schooling and medical care to safe water, electricity, and sanitation. In the long run, even high economic growth is threatened by the underdevelopment of infrastructure and the neglect of human capabilities, in contrast with the holistic approach pioneered by Japan, South Korea and China.

In a democracy, addressing these failures requires not only significant policy change, but also a clearer public understanding of the abysmal extent of deprivation in the country. Yet public discussion in India tends to be constricted to the lives and concerns of the relatively affluent. This book presents a powerful analysis not only of India's deprivations and inequalities, but also of the restraints on addressing them - and of the possibility of change through democratic practice.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 348g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 02 Jan 2020
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780141992624

About Amartya SenJean Dreze

JEAN DRÈZE currently visiting professor at Ranchi University (ex-LSE) has lived in India since 1979. He has made wide-ranging contributions to development economics and public policy with special reference to India. He is the author of Sense and Solidarity: Jholawala Economics for Everyone the co-author of the Public Report on Basic Education in India and with Amartya Sen of Hunger and Public Action and An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions. Amartya Sen is Professor of Economics and Professor of Philosophy at Harvard. He was Master of Trinity College Cambridge from 1998 to 2004 and won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998. His many celebrated books including Development as Freedom (1999) The Argumentative Indian (2005) Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (2007) and The Idea of Justice (2010) have been translated into more than 40 languages. In 2012 he received the National Humanities Medal from President Obama and in 2020 he was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade by President Steinmeier.

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