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India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age

by Gurcharan Das · 2000

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The author describes the transformation of India in the 1990's as she moved into the Information Age and the growing prosperity that has resulted.

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historyhistoryMore like thisLess of thiseconomicseconomicsMore like thisLess of thisbusinessbusinessMore like thisLess of thispoliticspoliticsMore like thisLess of thissociologysociologyMore like thisLess of this
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historical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of this
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politicspoliticsMore like thisLess of this
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20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of thisIndiaIndiaMore like thisLess of thisSouth AsiaSouth AsiaMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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long · 419 pages

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