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Dipankar Gupta, one of India's foremost thinkers on social and economic issues, takes a criticaland controversiallook 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 theoriesand the academics who perpetuate themthat 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 afte

Author

Gupta, Dipankar, 1949-

Publisher

Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Stanford University Press, 2009.

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804771894

Subjects

Economics, Business