Capital

the eruption of Delhi

466 pages

English language

Published Feb. 1, 2014 by The Penguin Press.

ISBN:
9781594204470
OCLC Number:
878224495

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"In Capital, Commonwealth Prize-winning author Rana Dasgupta examines one of the great trends of our time: the expansion of the global elite. Capital is an intimate portrait of the city of Delhi which bears witness to the extraordinary transmogrification of India's capital. But it also offers a glimpse of what capitalism will become in the coming, post-Western world. The story of Delhi is a parable for where we are all headed. The boom following the opening up of India's economy plunged Delhi into a tumult of destruction and creation: slums and markets were ripped down, and shopping malls and apartment blocks erupted from the ruins. Many fortunes were made, and in the glassy stores nestled among the new highways, customers paid for global luxury with bags of cash. But the transformation was stern, abrupt and fantastically unequal, and it gave rise to strange and bewildering feelings. The city brimmed with …

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"The symptoms of the global 21st Century in their most glaring and advanced form."

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"To look at contemporary Delhi is to look at the symptoms of the global 21st Century in their most glaring and advanced form." (439)

A deep dive into Delhi, neoliberlization, culture and politics, and (as the above quote mentions) the logical endpoint of contemporary capitalism.

Subjects

  • Social conditions
  • Elite (Social sciences)
  • Economic conditions
  • Wealth
  • Capitalism

Places

  • Delhi (India)
  • Delhi
  • India