India Briefing: Takeoff at Last?

In the last few years there has been a dramatic change in the way the world views India. Pundits now talk of “India as an emerging world power” not as wild speculation, but as prediction. With a rapidly growing economy, a world-class science and technology sector, and a huge English-speaking labour pool, India has become one of the hottest business stories around. At the same time, the country wrestles with difficult questions about the place of secularism in society and the reality that no matter how fantastic the technology headlines, there are still hundreds of millions of people for whom life remains a difficult challenge. This book India Briefing, the examines India’s changing fortunes through chapters that cover the fast-growing economy, the twists and turns of domestic politics, labor in the large informal sector, the cultural roots of Hindu nationalism, the foreign relations roller coaster, the business of Bollywood, and a special chapter covering the range of new resources about Indian available on the web.