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BRIEFLY NOTED.(In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India)(Brief article)(Book review)
"Remainder," by Tom McCarthy
"Lost City Radio," by Daniel Alarcon
"Toussaint Louverture," by Madison Smartt Bell
In Spite of the Gods, by Edward Luce (Doubleday; $26). The C.I.A. has projected that India will become, within the decade, the fourth most powerful country in the world. Yet, as Luce writes in this far-reaching study, the Indian government, beset by twenty-four party coalitions, is "fragmented and often incoherent"; fewer than forty million of India's citizens have "formal" employment and pay ...
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