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The world's fastest-growing democracy, India has the youngest population on the planet, and a middle class as big as the population of the entire United States. Its market has the potential to become the world's largest. As one film producer told Kamdar when they met in New York, "Who needs the American audience? There are only 300 million people here." Not only is India the ideal market for the next new thing, but with a highly skilled English-speaking workforce, elite educational institutions, and growing foreign investment, India is emerging as an innovator of the technology that is driving the next phase of the global economy.
While India is celebrating its meteoric rise, it is also racing against time to bring the benefits of the twenty-first century to the 800 million Indians who live on less than two dollars per day, to find the sustainable energy to fuel its explosive economic growth, and to navigate international and domestic politics to ensure India's security and its status as a global power. India is the world in microcosm: the challenges it faces are universal -- from combating terrorism, poverty, and disease to protecting the environment and creating jobs. The urgency of these challenges for India is spurring innovative solutions, which will catapult it to the top of the new world order. If India succeeds, it will not only save itself, it will save us all. If it fails, we will all suffer. As goes India, so goes the world.
Mira Kamdar tells the dramatic story of a nation in the midst of redefining itself and our world. Provocative, timely, and essential, Planet India is the groundbreaking book that will convince Americans just how high the stakes are -- what there is to lose, and what there is to gain from India's meteoric rise.
DID YOU KNOW?
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India is the world's fourth-largest economy.
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By 2034, India will be the most populous country on Earth, with 1.6 billion people.
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India's middle class is already larger than the entire population of the United States.
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One out of three of the world's malnourished children live in India.
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India is home to the biggest youth population on earth:
600 million people are under the age of 25.
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72,000,000 cell phones will be sold in India in 2007.
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India just edged past the United States to become the second-most-preferred destination for foreign direct investment after China.
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In 1991, Indians purchased 150,000 automobiles; in 2007, they are expected to purchase 10 million.
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By 2008, India's total pool of qualified graduates will be more than twice as large as China's.
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By 2015, an estimated 3.5 million white-collar U.S. jobs will be offshored.
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India is the largest arms importer in the developing world.
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American corporations expect to earn $20 to $40 billion from the civilian nuclear agreement with India.
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In 2007, there are 2.2 million Indian Americans, a number expected to double every decade.
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Twenty-nine percent of India's population speaks English -- that's 350 million people.
编辑推荐 Review
"Mira Kamdar takes the seemingly endless historical and cultural cross currents of India and weaves them together into a story that bears on the whole world. She combines her admiration and affection for India and its people with a keen eye for its contradictory impulses, taking readers deep inside an India that is fighting for modernity on its own terms, but also changing, for good and ill, in response to dynamics beyond its control. Indians, both within and outside their country, are changing the fates of people everywhere. Planet India is our planet."
-- Ted Fishman, author of China Inc.
"Planet India could become one of the most discussed books of the year. Kamdar's book is differenct from other similar themed books--it throws a challenge to the government, business leaders, voluntary organizations and ordinary citizens,and non-resident Indians, to make the Indian Success story meaningful even to the poorest of its citizens."
-- India Abroad
"This book is an absolute MUST read. It's by far the best book on India and globalization to date and on top of that it's a fun read."
-- Clyde Prestowitz, author of Rogue Nation and Three Billion New Capitalists
"This briskly written, vivid account shows how that subcontinental country's films, technology, and service industries have made India an ever-growing presence on the American scene."
-- Atlantic Monthly
"Planet India is a worthy addition to the burgeoning shelf of serious books about 21st century India."
-- Shashi Tharoor, Times of India
