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The Mirage Factory
Gary Krist
The Billionaire Raj
James Crabtree


Spanning the years from 1900 to 1930, The Mirage Factory is the enthralling tale of an improbable city and the people who willed it into existence by pushing the limits of human engineering and imagination.

India is the world’s largest democracy, with more than one billion people and an economy expanding faster than China’s. The Billionaire Raj is a colorful and revealing portrait of the rise of India’s new billionaire class in a radically unequal society.

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