Capital

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At the turn of the 21st century, acclaimed novelist Rana Dasgupta arrived in Delhi with a single suitcase. He had no intention of staying for long. But the city beguiled him – he ‘fell in love and in hate with it’ – and 14 years later, Delhi is still his home. In ‘Capital’, Dasgupta takes us through a series of encounters – with billionaires and bureaucrats, drug dealers and metal traders, slum dwellers and psychoanalysts – which plunge us into Delhi’s intoxicating, and sometimes terrifying, story of capitalist transformation.

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WINNER OF THE WINDHAM CAMPBELL PRIZE 2025
WINNER OF THE PRIX ÉMILE GUIMET DE LITTÉRATURE 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 ÉTRANGER 2016

In Capital, Rana Dasgupta reveals the red-hot city which erupted from Delhi’s economic boom in the 1990s and 2000s. Slums were bulldozed, luxury shopping malls erected in their place. The outer transformation, stern and abrupt, reached beyond mortar and into minds. Hundreds of thousands streamed in from rural hinterlands, and the city brimmed with possibility.

In this prescient account of the exultation and disparity that would emerge from India’s globalisation, Rana Dasgupta shows us a city’s rebirth – for better and worse – through the eyes of its people. Capital is a history, a warning and a looking glass. It is book for our times.

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Weight 0.378 kg
Dimensions 20.4 × 13.5 × 2.9 cm
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Cover

Paperback
Pages

480
Language

English
Edition
Dewey

954.56053 (edition:23)
Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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