India is the world's largest democracy, with more than one billion people and an economy expanding faster than China's. But the rewards of this growth have been far from evenly shared, and the country's top 1% now own nearly 60% of its wealth. In megacities like Mumbai, where half the population live in slums, the extraordinary riches of India's new dynasties echo the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers of America's Gilded Age, funneling profits from huge conglomerates into lifestyles of conspicuous consumption.

Part I : Robber barons. Ambaniland -- The good times begin -- Rise of the Bollygarchs -- Part II : Political machines. India modified -- The season of scams -- Money power politics -- Cronyism goes south -- Part III : A new gilded age. House of debt -- The anxious tycoons -- More than a game -- The nation wants to know -- The tragedies of Modi -- Conclusion : A progressive era?.