NEW DELHI, March 16 -- This book has a promising title and describes itself on the cover as "the first serious study of Indian business in the period since Independence." The title page carries a subtitle: Caste, Business and Industry in a Modern Nation that doesn't appear on the cover. The first word, 'caste' is the subaltern giveaway. The author has worked hard to fathom the nation's industrial happenings using a caste narrative that is, in my view, inappropriate in modern secular India....