'Behold the Leviathan' is a hopeful narrative of India's potential

Increasing women's workforce participation, the rise of a new class of elites without IIT-IIM education, and the JAM trinity are key socio-economic changes driving optimistic projections for India

Behold the Leviathan: The Unusual Rise of Modern India

Author: Saurabh Mukherjea & Nandita Rajhansa

Publisher: Penguin

Price: Rs 699
 

This is yet another book riding on the advances the Indian economy made after economic liberalisation and the accelerated growth of recent years. Most books like this extend the trend far into the future, based on the thin evidence of the past two or three years. This book, however, seeks to identify several socio-economic changes that provide the rationale for such optimistic projections.

The authors believe that India has changed the master narrative  — the shared stories of success that transform the belief