The international bestselling author of Breakout Nations and The Rise and Fall of Nations chronicles two decades of engagement with democracy in India, in anticipation of the country's next major election.
For many years Ruchir Sharma's writing has drawn on his travels as a global investor, which take him to a different emerging nation every month. Now a contributing writer at the New York Times, his columns and essays have appeared in Foreign Affairs, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, The Times of India, and many other publications, both global and Indian. His earlier books, The Rise and Fall of Nations (2016) and Breakout Nations (2012), both became international bestsellers. In Democracy on the Road, Ruchir brings readers along on his travels through India, where he follows at least one big election every year.
For a quarter of a century, Ruchir Sharma has been doing in India
what political pundits should have done in the US, UK and France to
understand Donald Trump, Brexit and the gilets jaunes protestors:
he has left the big cities and listened to voters in the mofussil
or provincial parts of the subcontinent. ... Above all, the trips
allowed Sharma to predict and understand the rise of the Bharatiya
Janata party's charismatic Narendra Modi, the collapse and later
revival of the Congress party under the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, and
the enduring influence of regional politicians such as Nitish Kumar
in Bihar and the late J Jayalalithaa in Tamil Nadu
*Financial Times*
Sharma's account of his travels offers a fascinating insight into
the quixotic characters populating India's political landscape.
Along the way, we meet mavericks and ministers, holy men and
hoaxers. Sharma is a diligent, informed and sympathetic guide
*Prospect*
A high-speed, breezy drive through two decades of electoral
politics
*Bloomberg*
An immediate must-read. A definitive one-volume on the modern
India
*Tom Keene, Bloomberg's Editor-at-large*
Packed with nuance and detail of the many Indias that make
India
*Vogue*
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