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Noida: Harper Collins, 2018; pp 358 + xxv, ` 799.   A series of reports released in 2018 by Oxfam and World Inequality Lab pointed to monstrous inequa­lities across the world, but the data pertaining to India was far more intimidating. The Oxfam survey reveals that India’s richest 1% corner 73% of the national wealth ( Economic Times 2018). This picture gets murkier when we witness the increase in the number of billionaires in India from one in 1991 to 131 in 2018 ( Fina­ncial Express 2018). In fact, in 2018 alone, the wealth of billionaires in India grew by `2,200 crore, while the poorest remained in debt (Oxfam India 2019). In 2008, in a speech to the Bombay Chamber of Commerce, Raghuram Rajan (2008) evinced a threat of oligarchy in India, which did not trigger a debate at that point of time; however, in 2011, Jayant Sinha and Ashutosh Varshney wrote somewhat strongly that it is now “the time for India to rein in its robber barons” (Sinha and Varshney 2011). In a

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