A Sixth of Humanity: Independent India’s Development Odyssey
The Talk
A Sixth of Humanity: Independent India’s Development Odyssey
The Talk
“A Sixth of Humanity” offers an account of India’s transformation from a postcolonial state to a global power. Through rigorous research, data-driven analysis, and vivid narrative, it unpacks the country’s unique development model, and how it attempted four transformations — building a state, forging a nation, changing society, and developing markets, all through democratic politics.
How far has India succeeded, and where and how does it go from here?
Devesh Kapur
Devesh Kapur is the Starr Foundation Professor of South Asia Studies at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He is the co-author of The World Bank: Its First Half Century and Public Institutions in India: Performance and Design. His recent books include The Other One Percent: Indians in America, Regulation in India: Design, Capacity, Performance, and The Oxford Handbook of Higher Education in Asia and the Pacific. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, he held appointments at the Brookings Institution, Harvard University, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Arvind Subramanian
Arvind Subramanian is Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE). He has taught at Brown, Ashoka, and Harvard Universities, and served as Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India between 2014 and 2018. He currently advises state governments on macroeconomic, fiscal, and sectoral issues. Foreign Policy magazine named him one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers in 2011.