prem shankar jha
penguin books india,
408 pages, rs 599
The latest in a slew of books on the ‘battle’ between India and China. Jha examines the social and political conflicts that the pursuit of capitalism has unleashed, and the successes and failures of these two countries in trying to contain them. He is skeptical about the inevitability of China and India’s rise to global dominance in the 21st century.
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