An uncertain glory : India and its contradictions /
India and its contradictions
Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen.
- London: Penguin, 2013
- xiii, 433 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-412) and indexes.
A new India? -- Integrating growth and development -- India in comparative perspective -- Accountability and corruption -- The centrality of education -- India`s health care crisis -- Poverty and soci
When India became independent in 1947 after two centuries of colonial rule, it immediately adopted a firmly democratic political system, with multiple parties, freedom of speech, and extensive politic