List of tables; List of graphs and maps; Preface and acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Brazil and India: a mirror image of each other?; 2. Approach and method 3. India and Brazil in the decades; 4. India and Brazil from 1980 until the present; 5. Key divides and cleavages: ruptures, continuities, or adaptation?; 6. Inequality in social and economic context; 7. Post-script; Index.