MEGHNAD DESAI was born in Vadodara, Gujarat, and received his BA and MA degrees from the University of Bombay. He went to the US in 1961 where he completed a doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania. He taught economics from 1965 to 2003 at the London School of Economics, where he now holds the post of Professor Emeritus. He has authored over twenty books and two hundred articles. His recent books include Marx's Revenge: Resurgence of Capitalism and the Death of Statist Socialism; Nehru's Hero: Dilip Kumar in the Life of India; Development and Nationhood: Essays on the Political Economy of South Asia; Rethinking Islamism: Ideology of the New Terror; and a novel, Dead on Time. Meghnad Desai is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the London School of Economics, UK. He was made Lord Desai of St Clement Danes in 1991, and was awarded the Bharatiya Pravasi Puraskar in 2004 and the Padma Bhushan in 2008.

‘Meghnad Desai's learned, elegant and provocative book is sure to rekindle the debate about the idea of India, its political and cultural roots and meanings.The reader will enjoy joining the author on his journey of rediscovery, as he deftly situates the unfolding of India's modern history in its global context.'

• Introduction: India at Sixty; Part 1; The Vasco da Gama Moment; The English Turn; Revenue, Reform and Renaissance; The Great Divide: From Company to Crown; The Settlement; Westminster Takes Charge; Ghandi, Irwin and Churchill; The Rupture; Jinnah's Hour; The Road to Pakistan; Political Economy of Empire and Nation; Part 2; Independent India: The Nehru Years; Heirs and Successors; Search for Stability 1989-2004; Globalizing India; Whose India? Which India?

MEGHNAD DESAI was born in Vadodara, Gujarat, and received his BA and MA degrees from the University of Bombay. He went to the US in 1961 where he completed a doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania. He taught economics from 1965 to 2003 at the London School of Economics, where he now holds the post of Professor Emeritus. He has authored over twenty books and two hundred articles. His recent books include Marx's Revenge: Resurgence of Capitalism and the Death of Statist Socialism; Nehru's Hero: Dilip Kumar in the Life of India; Development and Nationhood: Essays on the Political Economy of South Asia; Rethinking Islamism: Ideology of the New Terror; and a novel, Dead on Time. Meghnad Desai is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the London School of Economics, UK. He was made Lord Desai of St Clement Danes in 1991, and was awarded the Bharatiya Pravasi Puraskar in 2004 and the Padma Bhushan in 2008.

‘Meghnad Desai's learned, elegant and provocative book is sure to rekindle the debate about the idea of India, its political and cultural roots and meanings.The reader will enjoy joining the author on his journey of rediscovery, as he deftly situates the unfolding of India's modern history in its global context.'

• Introduction: India at Sixty; Part 1; The Vasco da Gama Moment; The English Turn; Revenue, Reform and Renaissance; The Great Divide: From Company to Crown; The Settlement; Westminster Takes Charge; Ghandi, Irwin and Churchill; The Rupture; Jinnah's Hour; The Road to Pakistan; Political Economy of Empire and Nation; Part 2; Independent India: The Nehru Years; Heirs and Successors; Search for Stability 1989-2004; Globalizing India; Whose India? Which India?

MEGHNAD DESAI was born in Vadodara, Gujarat, and received his BA and MA degrees from the University of Bombay. He went to the US in 1961 where he completed a doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania. He taught economics from 1965 to 2003 at the London School of Economics, where he now holds the post of Professor Emeritus. He has authored over twenty books and two hundred articles. His recent books include Marx's Revenge: Resurgence of Capitalism and the Death of Statist Socialism; Nehru's Hero: Dilip Kumar in the Life of India; Development and Nationhood: Essays on the Political Economy of South Asia; Rethinking Islamism: Ideology of the New Terror; and a novel, Dead on Time. Meghnad Desai is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the London School of Economics, UK. He was made Lord Desai of St Clement Danes in 1991, and was awarded the Bharatiya Pravasi Puraskar in 2004 and the Padma Bhushan in 2008.

‘Meghnad Desai's learned, elegant and provocative book is sure to rekindle the debate about the idea of India, its political and cultural roots and meanings.The reader will enjoy joining the author on his journey of rediscovery, as he deftly situates the unfolding of India's modern history in its global context.'

• Introduction: India at Sixty; Part 1; The Vasco da Gama Moment; The English Turn; Revenue, Reform and Renaissance; The Great Divide: From Company to Crown; The Settlement; Westminster Takes Charge; Ghandi, Irwin and Churchill; The Rupture; Jinnah's Hour; The Road to Pakistan; Political Economy of Empire and Nation; Part 2; Independent India: The Nehru Years; Heirs and Successors; Search for Stability 1989-2004; Globalizing India; Whose India? Which India?