'As the title indicates this book by Atul Kohli sets out to explain both the remarkable economic growth in India during the last three decades and the disappointing lack of success in combating poverty … India's political economy is notoriously difficult to summarise and predict but irrespective of this, Kohli's book will be a standard reference work on India's political economy at the beginning of the twenty-first century.' Jørgen Dige Pedersen, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics
Introduction; 1. Political change: illusions of inclusion; 2. State and economy: want amid plenty; 3. Regional diversity: to him who hath; Conclusion.