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Perspectives on India’s Social Development - Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya, Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries (New York, PublicAffairs, 2013) - Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen, An Uncertain Glory: India and its contradictions (Princeton/London, Princeton University Press/Penguin, 2013) - Akhil Gupta, Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence and Poverty in India. (Durham, Duke University Press, 2012)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2015

Roger Jeffery
Roger Jeffery*
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School of Social and Political Science, Edinburgh [R.Jeffery@ed.ac.uk].
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European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , Volume 55 , Issue 3 , December 2014 , pp. 464 - 472
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