Arjun Shankar draws from his long-term ethnographic work with an educational NGO in India to critique the role of the "brown savior"-the group of globally mobile, upper-caste, liberal Indian and Indian diasporic technocrats who dominate India's contemporary help economy.

Arjun Shankar draws from his long-term ethnographic work with an educational NGO in India to critique the role of the "brown savior"-the group of globally mobile, upper-caste, liberal Indian and Indian diasporic technocrats who dominate India's contemporary help economy.