Capital - A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi

WINNER OF THE WINDHAM-CAMPBELL PRIZE 2025 WINNER OF THE PRIX eMILE GUIMET DE LITTeRATURE ASIATIQUE 2017 WINNER OF THE RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI AWARD 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2015 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE ONDAATJE PRIZE 2015 SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE eTRANGER 2016 In Capital , Rana Dasgupta reveals the new version of Delhi that grew out of India''s economic boom in the early 1990s. Slums and markets were bulldozed or burnt down, and shopping malls and apartment blocks erupted from the ruins. Immense fortunes were made, and in the glassy stores lining the new highways, customers paid for global luxury with bags of cash. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people from the rural hinterland streamed in, looking for work. The transformation of the city was stern, abrupt and unequal. Delhi brimmed with ambition and rage. In his first work of non-fiction, Rana Dasgupta shows us Delhi''s rebirth, for better or worse, through the eyes of its people.

Product details

• Authors: Rana Dasgupta, Dasgupta Rana
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 11.09.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781837263592
• ISBN: 978-1-83726-359-2
• No. of pages: 480
• Series: The canons
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, India, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Social and cultural anthropology, Human Geography, National Capital Territory of Delhi, HISTORY / Asia / South / India, India; Delhi; economics; wealth disparity; inequality