The Indian renaissance [[electronic resource] ] : India's rise after a thousand years of decline / / Sanjeev Sanyal

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777948303321
• Autore: Sanyal Sanjeev
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2008
• ISBN: 981-281-878-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Disciplina: 330.9; 338.954
• Soggetti: Economic development - India; India Economic conditions 1991-; India Social conditions 1947-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Waiting for a Thousand Years; The "Golden" Past; The Decline; Why Did the Indian Civilization Go Into Decline?; The Importance of a Culture of Openness; The Story of Sanskrit; The 19th Century Re-awakening; 2. From Independence to Freedom; Mahalanobis and His Mechanical Toy; The Failure of Vision; The Price of Geo-politics; The Eighties and the Promise of Reform; The Collapse; 3. The Entrepreneurial Explosion; The First Phase: The First Breath of Freedom; The Second Phase: The Pain of Restructuring; The Third Phase: Take-Off; The Indian Growth Model; Why the Indian Model?4. The Great Indian Middle Class (and its Limitations); Origins; Independence and After; The White-Collar Boom; Manpower Shortages!; How Big is the Middle Class?; 5. Poverty, Inequality and the Last Bastion of Control; The Debate over Poverty and Jobless Growth; Liberalization and Rural India; Inequality and Unemployability; A Brief History of Higher Education in India; The Problem with Higher Education; The Last Bastion of State Control; 6. The Two Revolutions; The Demographic Revolution; Savings and the Asian Miracle; India's Savings Boom; The Primary Education RevolutionA New Trajectory; Can Poor Infrastructure Stop India?; Can India Generate Enough Jobs?; 7. The Importance of Institutional Reform; Governance and Second Generation ; Reforms; The Role of the Legal System; The Rules; Enforcing the Rules; The Importance of Legal Reform; 8. How India will Change; Inevitable Urbanization; The Middle Class and Institutional Change; Westernization versus Modernization; The Environmental Cost; India's Future Place in the World Economy; Hard versus Soft Power; 9. Is India's Rise Inevitable?; The Decline of Kolkata: A Cautionary Tale; Is the World Flat?Index
• Sommario/riassunto: India's recent economic performance has attracted world attention but the country is re-awakening not just as an economy but as a civilization. After a thousand years of the decline, it now has a genuine opportunity to re-establish itself as a major global power.In "The Indian Renaissance", the author, Sanjeev Sanyal, looks at the processes that led to ten centuries of fossilization and then at the powerful economic and social forces that are now working together to transform India beyond recognition. These range from demographic shifts to rising literacy levels, but the most important revolut