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On August 15, 1947, the day of India's independence from Britain, Ram Dass and his family were Untouchables--lowest of the low in an apparently unchanging caste system, landless serfs bonded to a feudal village lord in a remote part of Uttar Pradesh deep in the heart of Hindu India. Fifty years later as the country celebrated its half-century of independence, Ram Dass's family still suffered poverty and oppression--this despite their efforts and despite the changes which have transformed the face of independent India. This book is their story, and the story of modern India. Told through the voices of several generations, it takes the reader on a journey into the reality of Asian poverty--the powerlessness, the sickness, the illiteracy and all the other deprivations which enmesh the poor. Gradually we learn to understand not simply the human reality of what it means to be poor, but also the central paradox of modern India: half a century of democracy, economic growth and constitutional commitment to social justice has not lessened the acute, mass poverty of the country. This vivid account draws its readers into an unforgettable understanding not just of the personal experience of poverty but of the intractable reasons for its continuance.
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Siddharth Dube worked for the health divisions of UNICEF in New York and the World Bank in Washington before moving to New Delhi where he is a writer and a health policy analyst.
Review:
This is a book about how India works. Siddharth Dube's argument is relentless, like the poverty he describes. Arundhati Roy, author, The God of Small Things
"A deeply illuminating study of poverty in India, seen in concrete detail and made vividly real by remarkable descriptive skill." AMARTYA SEN, Nobel laureate in economics --Professor Amartya Sen, Harvard University
"An extraordinary study of the human dimensions of poverty and development." SHASHI THAROOR --Shashi Tharoor
"A deeply illuminating study of poverty in India, seen in concrete detail and made vividly real by remarkable descriptive skill." AMARTYA SEN, Nobel laureate in economics --Professor Amartya Sen, Harvard University
"An extraordinary study of the human dimensions of poverty and development." SHASHI THAROOR --Shashi Tharoor
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- PublisherZed Books
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 1856495973
- ISBN 13 9781856495974
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages224
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