Churning the Earth: The Making of Global India

By Ashish Kothari and Aseem Shrivastava

Book Overview

The world stands so dazzled by India's meteoric economic rise that we hesitate to acknowledge its consequences to the people and the environment. In "Churning the Earth," Aseem Shrivastava and Ashish Kothari engage in a timely enquiry of this impressive growth story. They present incontrovertible evidence o nhow the nature of this recent growth has been predatory and question its sustainability. Unfettered development has damaged the ecological basis that makes life possible for hundreds of millions resulting in conflicts over water, land, and natural resources, and increasing the chasm between the rich and the poor, threatening the future of India as a civilization.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670086258
• ISBN13: 9780670086252
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Penguin Global
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher