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Patrick French examines the cultural foundations that have made India’s accelerated transformation from socialist economy to capitalist powerhouse possible.
From the award winning author of The World is What It Is and Liberty or Death: India’s Journey to Independence and Division, comes this new epic of India in the 21st Century. French creates a vivid, surprising picture of what it is like to live at a time when millions have pulled themselves free of poverty – with fortunes made almost overnight – but where violence, corruption and caste prejudice have equally been given new outlets. Speaking to everyone from the nation’s political leadership to Maoist revolutionaries and mafia dons, from chained quarry workers to self-made billionaire entrepreneurs, French examines the cultural foundations that have made India’s accelerated transformation from socialist economy to capitalist powerhouse possible.
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17 May 2011 at 6:45 pm |
Duration: | TBC |
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Asia House |
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£10 / £7 / £6 |
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020 7307 5454 |
Additional Information: |
www.festivalofasianliterature.com/ |
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