An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions Hardcover – 4 Jul 2013

Review

"[A]n excellent but unsettling new book."--"The Economist"

"[E]legant and restrained prose, and with an array of fresh examples."--Ramachandra Guha, "Financial Times"

"Sen and Dreze are right to draw attention to the limits of India's success and how much remains to be done. They are exemplary scholars, and everything they say is worth careful study."--Clive Crook, "Bloomberg News"

"It's an urgent, passionate, political work that makes the case that India cannot move forward without investing significantly--as every other major industrialized country has already done--in public services. . . . This book is . . . a heartfelt plea to rethink what progress in a poor country ought to look like."--Jyoti Thottam, "New York Times Book Review"

"After three decades of trawling the data compiled by central and state governments, Indian nongovernmental organizations, and international bodies, these longtime collaborators know--possibly better than any other commentators--how Indian governments since the 1980s have failed the vast majority of Indians, especially in health care, education, poverty reduction, and the justice system."--Andrew Robinson, "Science"

"Sen and Dr ze carefully explain such issues as health care, education, corruption, lack of accountability, growing inequality, and their suppression in India's elite-dominated public space. . . . Sen and Dr ze also reveal how democracy in its simplest manifestation, the scramble for votes, can drive successful implementation of welfare programs such as the Public Distribution System."--Pankaj Mishra, "New York Review of Books"

"Sen and Dreze carefully explain such issues as health care, education, corruption, lack of accountability, growing inequality, and their suppression in India's elite-dominated public space. . . . Sen and Dreze also reveal how democracy in its simplest manifestation, the scramble for votes, can drive successful implementation of welfare programs such as the Public Distribution System."--Pankaj Mishra, "New York Review of Books"

One of "BloombergBusinessweek" Best Books of 2013, selected by Edmund Phelps

"[A]n excellent but unsettling new book."-- "The Economist"

One of "Bloomberg/Businessweek" Best Books of 2013, selected by Edmund Phelps

"Economists Dreze and Nobel laureate Sen compellingly argue that Indian policy makers have ignored the basic needs of people, especially those of the poor and women."--"Choice"


One of "Bloomberg/Businessweek" Best Books of 2013, selected by Edmund Phelps


"[A]n excellent but unsettling new book."--"The Economist"


""An Uncertain Glory" is an excellent, highly readable, and exceptionally meaningful book."--S. Prakash Sethi, "Business Ethics Quarterly"

One of Bloomberg/Businessweek Best Books of 2013, selected by Edmund Phelps

"It's an urgent, passionate, political work that makes the case that India cannot move forward without investing significantly--as every other major industrialized country has already done--in public services. . . . This book is . . . a heartfelt plea to rethink what progress in a poor country ought to look like."--Jyoti Thottam, New York Times Book Review

"Sen and Dreze carefully explain such issues as health care, education, corruption, lack of accountability, growing inequality, and their suppression in India's elite-dominated public space. . . . Sen and Dreze also reveal how democracy in its simplest manifestation, the scramble for votes, can drive successful implementation of welfare programs such as the Public Distribution System."--Pankaj Mishra, New York Review of Books"

"After three decades of trawling the data compiled by central and state governments, Indian nongovernmental organizations, and international bodies, these longtime collaborators know--possibly better than any other commentators--how Indian governments since the 1980s have failed the vast majority of Indians, especially in health care, education, poverty reduction, and the justice system."--Andrew Robinson, Science

"[A]n excellent but unsettling new book."--The Economist

"[E]legant and restrained prose, and with an array of fresh examples."--Ramachandra Guha, Financial Times

"Sen and Dreze are right to draw attention to the limits of India's success and how much remains to be done. They are exemplary scholars, and everything they say is worth careful study."--Clive Crook, Bloomberg News

"Economists Dreze and Nobel laureate Sen compellingly argue that Indian policy makers have ignored the basic needs of people, especially those of the poor and women."--Choice

"An Uncertain Glory is an excellent, highly readable, and exceptionally meaningful book."--S. Prakash Sethi, Business Ethics Quarterly --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Back Cover

"India is a great success story of economic growth and poverty decline, but it remains the home of global poverty, and half of its children are profoundly malnourished. This paradox of poverty and plenty poses one of the great intellectual and moral challenges of the day. We can ask for no better guides to it than a philosopher and an activist, both distinguished economists, and both with unparalleled knowledge of India's glories and its shames."--Angus Deaton, author of The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality

"This important book provides a comprehensive and probing analysis of the Indian economy and its enormous potential. What makes this such an engaging book is that it is a deeply sympathetic and, for that very reason, a deeply critical evaluation of contemporary India. The book's combination of economics, politics, history, and law makes it a fascinating read."--Kaushik Basu, chief economist of the World Bank