LEADER 04022nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910454806503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a981-281-878-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000765805 035 $a(EBL)1193439 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000518458 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11333178 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000518458 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10493827 035 $a(PQKB)10256153 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1193439 035 $a(WSP)00006891 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1193439 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10688054 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL491722 035 $a(OCoLC)826660074 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000765805 100 $a20130430d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Indian renaissance$b[electronic resource] $eIndia's rise after a thousand years of decline /$fSanjeev Sanyal 210 $aHackensack, NJ $cWorld Scientific$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (264 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a981-281-877-4 327 $aContents; 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 327 $aWhy 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 327 $aThe 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 327 $aIs the World Flat?Index 330 $aIndia'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 606 $aEconomic development$zIndia 607 $aIndia$xEconomic conditions$y1991- 607 $aIndia$xSocial conditions$y1947- 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEconomic development 676 $a330.9 676 $a338.954 700 $aSanyal$b Sanjeev$0957929 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454806503321 996 $aThe Indian renaissance$92170214 997 $aUNINA