India's Power Elite

Sanjay Baru comes from the kind of pedigree that ruled the roost in old India. With a grandfather who served in the Indian Civil Service, a father who served in the Indian Administrative Service and his own role as advisor to PM Manmohan Singh firmly places him in the old power elite. This books tries to weave together a narrative, sometimes successfully - sometimes clumsily - about the rise of a new power elite in India that doesn't seek to integrate but abolish the old order. While providing a window into the transition, Baru periodically feels the need to enter the historical background of India as a nation-state, in a cavalier, opinion-editor manner that wasn't necessary for the purposes of this book.