Free Implosion by John Elliott Page A

Varma, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Rakesh Mohan, S.L. Rao, Ashok Desai, Hugh Sandeman, Madhukar Khera, Lord (Nigel) Lawson, Shylashri Shankar, Vikram Singh Mehta, Ravi Kaimal, Sudeshna Chatterjee, Subrata Gupta, Ravinder Kaur, Dipankar Gupta, Nandan Nilekani, Biswajit Mohanty, Sachin Pilot, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Amitabha Pande, Nitin Bhayana, B.K. Synghal, Kalyan Bose, Arun Shourie, Anvar Alikhan, Ram Karan, V.K. Srinivasan, Manoj Joshi, Ajai Shukla, Rahul Chaudhry, Khutub Hai, Stephen P. Cohen, Sunil Dasgupta, Naresh Chandra, Tariq A. Karim, Shivshankar Menon, K. Shankar Bajpai, G. Parathasarathy, Kanwal Sibal, T.C.A. Rangachari, Navtej Sarna, Rob Young, Bob Blackwill, David Sloan and Arun Kapur.
    Keshav Choudhary, a young graduate, did some valuable research, and I’m grateful to Samir Saran and C. Raja Mohan at the Observer Research Foundation for hosting me at countless seminars and networking vegetarian lunches. At Harper Collins, thanks to Krishan Chopra, my editor Karthika V.K., and also to Shantanu Chaudhuri and all the staff.
    Going back in history, Abid Hussain, along with Tarun Das and others, helped me to begin to understand India in the 1980s, and encouraged me to return in 1995 when Abid gave me a visiting fellowship at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Contemporary Affairs, which he was then running. Later, he often gave ideas and encouragement but sadly died in June 2012, just as we were about to meet and talk, so could not advise me as much I had hoped on this book. Others I have also sadly missed include S.K. Singh, Hari Shankar Singhania, Vijay Shankardass and David Gore-Booth. The many other contacts and friends over the years are far too numerous to name but include Pran Chopra, Salman Haider, Vijay Kelkar, Bimal Jalaan, Peter Hassan, Bim Bissell, Gautam Thapar, Jamshyd Godrej, Rahul Bajaj, R.C. Bhargava, V. Krishnamurthy, Talmiz Ahmad, Arvind Singhal, Pradip Shah, Sanjoy Bhattacharyya, Jairam Ramesh, Mark Tully, Dinesh Trivedi, Sushil Premchand, Rejeev Gupta, Aditi Phadnis, Tony Jesudasan, Mike Knowles, Michael Carter, Marcus Winsley and William Knight.
    A tribute to Geoffrey Goodman, my old colleague, mentor and friend, to whom this book is dedicated, appears at the end of the Introduction.
    J OHN E LLIOTT
    January 2014
Delhi

Index
Aadhaar biometric identification scheme
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)
Abdullah, Farooq
Abdullah, Omar
Abdullah, Sheikh
accountability
Actual Ground Position Line (AGPL)
Adani Group
Aditya Birla Group
administrative problems
Advanced Radio Masts (ARM), Hyderabad
Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA)
Afghanistan
Afro-Asian Games
Agni
AGNI V
agricultural credit and finance systems
Ahluwalia, Isher
Ahluwalia, Montek Singh
Ahuja, Gautam
Air Deccan
Air India
Aiyar, Mani Shankar
Aiyar, Swaminathan
Akash surface-to-air missile
Akbar, M.J.
akhara (sect of Hindu Sadhus)
Aksai Chin
Alcan, Canada
Alcatel, France
Alcatel-Lucent
Alfred, King
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK)
Alpha Technologies
Ambani, Anil
Ambani, Dhirubhai
Ambani, Mukesh
Ambanis
Ambassador car
Ambedkar, Bhim Rao
Amethi, Uttar Pradesh
Anand, J.S.
Anatronic
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andhra Pradesh: business communities, corruption scandals, economic growth, irrigation in the 1800,s
Andhra Pradesh Beverages Corporation
Anne, Princess
Antony, A.K.
appropriate technology
Arab Spring uprisings
Araku Valley
Arcelor Mittal
Arjun battle tank
Armellini, Antonio
Army jeep scandal
Arora, G.S.
Arunachal Pradesh (North-East Frontier Agency): Chinese excursions
Asian community in America
Asian Games (1982)
Asia-Pacific region and China, American initiative
Association for Democratic Reforms
Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)
Atlas Cycles
Augusta Westland Company
Aung San Suu Kyi
Aurobindo Pharma
Austin-Morris Mini
authoritarianism
auto industry
automated logistics systems and warehousing
Azad Kashmir
Baalu, T.R.
Badal, Prakash Singh
BAE Systems
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)
Baijal, Pradip
Bajaj in autos
Bajpai, K.