Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Ending international income apartheid in the 21st century -- India's growth story : a basis for confidence but in need of course- -- Correction -- A new paradigm for sustainable prosperity -- Growth prospects : downside scenario and preferred scenario -- Export-oriented knowledge economy for sustainable economic prosperity -- Ensuring social sustainability of prosperity -- Financially sustainable resource mobilization -- Making prosperity ecologically sustainable -- Towards decentralized knowledge-centric cities in prosperous India 2050 -- Getting the government do its duty of providing public goods -- Some overarching themes -- India at cross-roads -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author.