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WINNER OF THE WINDHAM-CAMPBELL PRIZE 2025
WINNER OF THE PRIX ÉMILE GUIMET DE LITTÉRATURE ASIATIQUE 2017
WINNER OF THE RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI AWARD 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2015
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE ONDAATJE PRIZE 2015
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE ÉTRANGER 2016
In Capital, Rana Dasgupta reveals the new version of Delhi that grew out of India's economic boom in the early 1990s. Slums and markets were bulldozed or burnt down, and shopping malls and apartment blocks erupted from the ruins. Immense fortunes were made, and in the glassy stores lining the new highways, customers paid for global luxury with bags of cash. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people from the rural hinterland streamed in, looking for work. The transformation of the city was stern, abrupt and unequal. Delhi brimmed with ambition and rage. In his first work of non-fiction, Rana Dasgupta shows us Delhi's rebirth, for better or worse, through the eyes of its people.
