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Behold the Leviathan: The Unusual Rise of Modern India
Author: Saurabh Mukherjea & Nandita Rajhansa
Publisher: Penguin
Price: Rs 699
This is yet another book riding on the advances the Indian economy made after economic liberalisation and the accelerated growth of recent years. Most books like this extend the trend far into the future, based on the thin evidence of the past two or three years. This book, however, seeks to identify several socio-economic changes that provide the rationale for such optimistic projections.
The authors believe that India has changed the master narrative — the shared stories of success that transform the belief