Chakravorty and Lall's Made in India is the first book on India’s economic geography that addresses the roots, consequences, and policies on what is perhaps the most significant development problem facing the country: the large and increasing income gaps between regions.

The authors describe and analyze the processes of industrial formation over the long run (especially over the last decade and half), at multiple spatial scales (region, state, metropolis, district, and pin code), using state of the art and innovative methods. They document the rising tide of spatial inequality and show how market forces (economic geography) and state actions (political economy) have contributed to this condition. In the process they interrogate some of the most fundamental questions in economic geography—specifically the issues surrounding clustering, concentration, market access, and external economies—and make significant contributions to its theoretical foundations. The result is considered by some to be the definitive account of India’s industrial geography.

Sanjoy Chakravorty, associate professor and chair of Geography and Urban studies at Temple University, is the author of Fragments of Inequality (2005, Routledge), a theoretical analysis of the dynamics of inequality and income distribution. Professor Chakravorty has authored or co-authored three dozen journal articles, book chapters and reports that have been widely published in geography, development economics, planning, and urban journals. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Justice, the American Institute of Indian Studies, and the World Bank.

David Ludden has published widely on agragarian issues, subaltern studies, and religion in South Asia. He is the author of numerous publications including the monographs, An Agragarian History of South Asia (Cambridge, 2002) and Peasant History in South Asia (Princeton, 1985); he is also editor of Reading Subaltern Studies (Permanent Black, 2002) and Making India Hindu (Penn, 1996; OUP, 1996; reissued buy OUP in 2005). A longtime faculty member at the Penn History department, Ludden joins NYU's History department in 2007 as Professor of Political Economy and Globalization.

Shanker Satyanath writes on the political economy of development and finance and teaches at NYU's Political Science department. He is the author of the monograph, Globalization, Politics, and Financial Turmoil: Asia's Banking Crisis (Cambridge, 2005).