Five books you will never hear about in B-school

Thomas Piketty’s 600-page Capital was the tour de force of 2014. This serious study of economic inequality depended on the works of Balzac and Jane Austen to dramatise the immobility of a 19th-century world where inequality guaranteed more inequality—a world the 21st century is beginning to resemble once again.PrintWeek India looks at five Indian literary masterpieces which look at feudalism, zamindarism, and how income from labour could never catch up.

by Ramu Ramanathan