40年前，印度在风雨飘摇中开始经济自由化改革，如今已成为世界衰退大趋势下仍旧坚挺的新兴经济体。
今日的印度拥有世界最大规模且结构年轻的人口、发达的科技、日益庞大的中产消费群体和逐日膨胀的乐观野心，然而在沸腾的表象之下隐现着不可持续的危机：商业巨头垄断着经济成果，被落下的普通人无力改变贫穷且无望的生活。政治与商业的共生曾促成印度的经济奇迹，一度作为发展润滑剂的腐败，现在却侵蚀着本已锈迹斑斑的国家机器和每个人的生活。
身为资深财经记者与政策分析师，詹姆斯·克拉布特里在担任《金融时报》驻孟买分社社长的5年间，长期跟踪和独家采访众多政商要人，从世界上最昂贵住宅的空中露台到贫困村庄尘土飞扬的大规模政治集会，全方位呈现一个处在转型风口浪尖的分裂社会，以及它未来对整个世界的重要意义。
作者简介
詹姆斯·克拉布特里（James Crabtree）
英国作家、记者、政策分析师，生于苏格兰，先后毕业于伦敦政治经济学院和哈佛大学肯尼迪政治学院，曾为哈佛大学富布莱特学者，曾任新加坡国立大学李光耀公共政策学院副教授、国际战略研究所亚洲分部执行主任。他还曾为伦敦和华盛顿的多家智库工作，在英国首相战略部门任高级政策顾问，2011年至2016年担任《金融时报》孟买分社社长，并长期为《纽约时报》《经济学人》《外交政策》《连线》等刊物撰稿。现为欧洲对外关系委员会的杰出访问学者。
邢玮
青年译者，毕业于北京大学英文系。喜欢文学，翻译过埃里克·拉森、厄休拉·勒古恩、凯蒂·维兰德、G.A.亨蒂等人的作品。
India, which began liberalising its economy with a shaky start 40 years ago, is now one of the emerging economies holding up in the face of the global recession.
India today has the world's largest and most youthful population, advanced technology, a growing middle class of consumers, and growing optimistic ambitions, but beneath the bubbling surface lurks an unsustainable crisis: business giants monopolize economic outcomes, and ordinary people who have been left behind are powerless to change their poor and hopeless lives. The symbiosis of politics and business that once fueled India's economic miracle, the corruption that once lubricated development, now corrodes the rusting machinery of the state and everyone's lives.
In his five years as the FT's Mumbai bureau chief, James Crabtree, a veteran financial journalist and policy analyst, has followed and interviewed political and business figures from the sky terraces of the world's most expensive homes to dusty political rallies in impoverished villages, revealing a divided society on the cusp of transformation. And what it means to the world in the future.
About the author
By James Crabtree
A Scottish-born British writer, journalist, and policy analyst, he graduated from the London School of Economics and the Kennedy School of Politics at Harvard University. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University, an associate professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, and Executive Director of the Asia Division of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He has also worked for a number of think tanks in London and Washington, served as a senior policy adviser to the UK Prime Minister's Strategy Unit, was the Mumbai bureau chief of the Financial Times from 2011 to 2016, and is a long-time contributor to publications such as The New York Times, The Economist, Foreign Policy, and Wired. He is currently a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Xing Wei
Young translator, graduated from Peking University English Department. He loves literature and has translated Eric Larsen, Ursula LeGuen, Kati Wieland, G.A. Henty et al.
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