Recasting India

Hindol Sengupta

Pan Macmillan, 239 pages, Rs. 499

Hindol Sengupta argues that despite the staggering disparity of income among Indians, the explosion of local entrepreneurship across the country is a source of new hope. Small, local businesses are drastically changing the country’s politics, upending the old caste system and creating a “middle India” full of opportunity. The true potential of India is even larger than the world perceives, Sengupta says, since the economic miracle unfolding in its small towns and villages is not reflected in its stock markets.