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The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age

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  • Jul 3, 2018
  • #India #EconomicInequality
James Crabtree
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India is the world's largest democracy, with more than one billion people and an economy expanding faster than China's. But the rewards of this growth have been far from evenly shar... Show More

India is the world's largest democracy, with more than one billion people and an economy expanding faster than China's. But the rewards of this growth have been far from evenly shared, and the country's top 1% now own nearly 60% of its wealth. In megacities like Mumbai, where half the population live in slums, the extraordinary riches of India's new dynasties echo the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers of yesterday, funneling profits from huge conglomerates into lifestyles of conspicuous consumption.

James Crabtree's The Billionaire Raj takes readers on a personal journey to meet reclusive billionaires, fugitive tycoons, and shadowy political power brokers. From the sky terrace of the world's most expensive home to impoverished villages and mass political rallies, Crabtree dramatizes the battle between crony capitalists and economic reformers, revealing a tense struggle between equality and privilege playing out against a combustible backdrop of aspiration, class, and caste.

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Number of Pages: 416

ISBN: 1524760064

ISBN-13: 9781524760069

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Morning Brew @morningbrew · May, 2020
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Inside the rise of India’s billionaire class, staggering inequality, and the forces that challenge the world’s largest democracy.
Trung Phan @TrungTPhan · Sep 25, 2022
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Thanks James! Billionaire Raj a fantastic read 🙌
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