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Inviting and vibrant, India has captivated the world’s imagination for centuries. Its food, music, and culture -- including, of course, Bollywood -- have always served to attract our senses and awaken our spirit of adventure. But what many of us are also beginning to notice is that this former British colony has blossomed into the fastest-growing democracy in the world and is on it way to becoming the next economic force to be reckoned with. With 600 million people under the age of 25 and a thriving middle class, cities like Mumbai, Bangalore, and Delhi are becoming the world’s newest centers of cultural and economic growth. It’s official: India has come into its own and promises to surpass China as the major new player on the world stage.
In India Arriving, Rafiq Dossani gives us a unique and unflinching look at the people, history, and culture of an often romanticized but often misunderstood country. Chronicling this enigmatic country from its birth as an independent nation in 1947 to its emergence as the next global superpower, India Arriving shows us the real India, with all of its flaws and all of its beauty. As an expert in India business policy, Dossani was influential in helping to introduce several reforms to the Indian government. Now, with an insider’s eye, he takes us through the rich history of this emerging economic powerhouse, exploring how the forces of history, education, political shifts, and social reform have helped shape modern India. Dossani also reveals how this nation has overcome corruption, an unwieldy bureaucracy, and a historically unstable economy to become a bastion of higher learning, technological development, and foreign investment. As India Arriving takes us from the teeming streets of Urban India to the vast flatlands of rural India, we begin to understand how factors like shifting religious views, freedom of the press, the burning desire for literacy, and an influential diaspora have all made India a major player on the world stage.
Revelatory and compelling, India Arriving, offers an unprecedented look at a country that none of us can afford to ignore.
Rafiq Dossani is a senior research scholar and executive scholar and executive director of South Asia programs at Stanford University’s Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. He teaches courses in South Asian development, identity, and politics. He has also been the chairman and CEO of a stockbroking firm on the OTCEI exchange in India, the deputy editor of Business India Weekly, and a professor of finance at Pennsylvania State University. He holds a BA in economics from St. Stephen’s College, New Delhi, India; an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India; and a Ph.D. in finance from Northwestern University. He lives in Palo Alto, California.
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