Uncertain glory : India and its contradictions /
by Jean Dreze
- London: Penguin Books/Allen Lane, 2013.
- xiii,433p.
1.A new India-- 2.Integrating growth and development-- 3.India in comparative perspective-- 4. Accountability and corruption-- 5,The centrality of education-- 6.India's health care crisis-- 7.Poverty and social support-- 8.The grip of inequality-- 9.Democracy,inequality and public reasoning-- 10.The need for impatience.
Features a passionate, considered argument for the need for a greater understanding of inequalities in India, despite economic development. This book presents an analysis of India's deprivations and inequalities, and also of the restraints on addressing them - and of the possibility of change through democratic practice.