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A colorful and revealing portrait of the rise of India's new billionaire class in a radically unequal society
'An enlightening and engaging story of wealth and poverty in India'
-Amartaya Sen, Winner of Nobel Prize in Economics
It is bound to become a classic.'
- Jagdish Bhagwati, author of In Defense of Globalization
'A wonderful book!...It is not easy to write contemporary history but Crabtree manages to get to the heart of the matter.'
- Gurcharan Das, author of India Unbound and The Difficulty of Being Good
Shortlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
'Enlightening and engaging' AMARTYA SEN
'Bound to become a classic' JAGDISH BHAGWATI
'An essential guide if you want to understand modern India' EDWARD LUCE
'[A] timely, fascinating and eye-opening book . . . wonderfully witty and beautifully written' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
'Compelling . . . vivid . . . James Crabtree has given us the most comprehensive and eminently readable tour of economic India.' FINANCIAL TIMES
A colourful and revealing portrait of the rise of India's new billionaire class in a radically unequal society
India is the world's largest democracy, with more than one billion people and an economy expanding faster than China's. But the rewards of this growth have been far from evenly shared, and the country's top 1 per cent now owns nearly 60 per cent of its wealth. In megacities like Mumbai, where half the population lives in slums, the extraordinary riches of India's new dynasties echo the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers of yesteryear, funnelling profits from huge conglomerates into lifestyles of conspicuous consumption. The Billionaire Raj takes readers on a personal journey to meet these reclusive billionaires, fugitive tycoons and shadowy political power brokers. From the sky terrace of the world's most expensive home to impoverished villages and mass political rallies, James Crabtree dramatizes the battle between crony capitalists and economic reformers, revealing a tense struggle between equality and privilege playing out against a combustible backdrop of aspiration, class and caste.
The Billionaire Raj is a vivid account of a divided society on the cusp of transformation – and a struggle that will shape not just India's future, but the world's.
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GenrePolitics and Government, Business and Economics
Length16 hrs 30 mins
Narrated bySagar Arya
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateSep 25, 2026
LanguageEnglish
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