Poverty and Income Distribution in India was originally published in 1964, which brought together the global who’s who of poverty research of that time. It presents as an essential reference with four essays by the current editors and one by the economics Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, which reflect on the shifts in Perspective that have taken place in the decades gone by. It recognizes the names of the past, and through the inclusion of new papers, provides a bridge for the future.