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India In The 21st Century: What Everyone Needs To KnowStock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionAccording to current projections, India will overtake China to become the most populous country on Earth by 2050. Its 1.6 billion people will live in the world's second-largest economy, after China but ahead of the United States and the European Union. A democracy and an open society compared to China, India's destiny matters deeply to a West whose influence in shaping the 21st century will decline as that of these two Asian giants and other emerging economies in Africa and Latin America rise. In India in the 21st Century, Mira Kamdar, a fellow at the Asia Society and the World Policy Institute and an award-winning author, offers readers an introduction to India today in all its complexity. An ancient civilization tracing its roots back 5,000 years, the Republic of India was the first of Europe's former colonies to gain independence in the mid-20th century. With institutions of governance and a legal system inherited from the British, as well as the English language, India has the potential to function as a "bridge nation" between Asia and the West, between the advanced economies of the global North and the developing countries of the South. Author descriptionMira Kamdar is a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute and an Associate Fellow at the Asia Society. She is the author of Planet India (Scribner 2008) and provides analysis on breaking international news for leading broadcast and print outlets. Table of contentsIntroduction: India: Past and Future Present ; Part One: How India Got to the 21st Century ; Section I: India's Civilizational Legacy ; Section II: India and Western Expansion ; Section III: India's Independence Movement ; Section IV: A New Republic ; Section V: The 1990s and early 2000s: Setting the Stage for the 21st Century ; Part Two: Will the 21st Century be India's Century? ; Section I: Economy ; Section II: Geopolitics ; Section III: Society ; Section IV: Environment ; Conclusion |