The Strange Rise of Modern India

In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India (Anchor, 2008)

In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India (Anchor, 2008)

Edward Luce was the Financial Times' South Asia bureau chief based in New Delhi between 2001 and 2005. Now based in Washington, DC as the FT's Washington Commentator, he has worked for the Financial Times since 1995 with a one-year break to work in Washington, DC as the speech writer to Larry Summers, the final US Treasury Secretary of the Clinton administration.

Edward Luce is a graduate from Oxford University in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. He also completed postgraduate studies in newspaper journalism at City University London.

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