"A personal account of a social and economic revolution"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-387) and index.

In India Unbound, acclaimed columnist Gurcharan Das offers a comprehensive view of the economic and social transformation of India from independence to the new millennium. It is the riveting story of a nation?s rise from poverty to prosperity and the clash of ideas that occurred along the way. Das shows how India?s policies after 1947 condemned the nation to a hobbled economy until 1991, when the government instituted sweeping reforms that paved the way for extraordinary growth. Das traces these developments and tells the stories of the major players from Nehru through today?s corporate leaders. Deftly interweaving memoir with history, Das has created a book that is at once vigorously analytical and vividly written. Impassioned, erudite and eminently written India Unbound is a must for anyone interested in the global economy and its future.