India in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know®

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Mira Kamdar (Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute and an Associate Fellow at the Asia Society)

India in the 21st Century

What Everyone Needs to Know®

Mira Kamdar (Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute and an Associate Fellow at the Asia Society)

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Oxford University Press
23 April 2018

Regional studies; History; Politics & government; Economics

Series: What Everyone Needs To Know®

According 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. InIndia in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know®, 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. As such, India is set to play a critical role in how our world evolves during the coming decades.

In a concise question-and-answer format, Kamdar addresses India's history, including its colonial legacy and independence movement; the political and social structures in place today; its rapidly growing economy and financial system; the geopolitical landscape of the 21st century and India's place in global politics; and the environmental concerns faced by the country, among other topics. She explores India's contradictions and complications, from its worringly narrow politics of patronage to its willingness to censor information by banning books and controlling internet content. At the same time, Kamdar celebrates the merging of India's muticultural landscape and deep artistic and intellectual heritage with the dawning of the Information Age and the expansion of mass media, which have made it one of the world's 21st-century cultural powerhouses.

By: Mira Kamdar (Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute and an Associate Fellow at the Asia Society)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 308g
ISBN: 9780199973590
ISBN 10: 0199973598
Series: What Everyone Needs To Know®
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 23 April 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

INTRODUCTION: 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

Mira 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.

Reviews for India in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know®

India in the 21st century is at a crossroads-and the path it decides to take will have an impact far beyond its own borders. With a book as ambitious as the country it covers, Mira Kamdar does us all an important service by writing this excellent volume * Ian Bremmer, President of Eurasia group and author of Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism *