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India in the 21st Century What Everyone Needs to Know
Mira Kamdar
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Description for India in the 21st Century What Everyone Needs to Know
Paperback. A focused and accessible introduction to modern India by award-winning author Mira Kamdar, India in the 21st Century addresses the history, political and social structures, economic and financial system, and geopolitical landscape of a country set to play a critical role in how the world evolves in the coming decades. Series: What Everyone Needs to Know. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JM; GTB; JP; KC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
India is fast overtaking China to become the most populous country on Earth. By mid-century, its 1.7 billion people will live in what is projected to become the world's second-largest economy after China. While a democracy and an open society compared to China, assertive Hindu nationalism is posing new challenges to India's democratic freedoms and institutions at a time when illiberal democracies and autocratic leaders are on the rise worldwide. How India's destiny plays out in the coming decades will matter deeply to a world where the West's influence in shaping the 21st century will decline as that of ... Read more
India is fast overtaking China to become the most populous country on Earth. By mid-century, its 1.7 billion people will live in what is projected to become the world's second-largest economy after China. While a democracy and an open society compared to China, assertive Hindu nationalism is posing new challenges to India's democratic freedoms and institutions at a time when illiberal democracies and autocratic leaders are on the rise worldwide. How India's destiny plays out in the coming decades will matter deeply to a world where the West's influence in shaping the 21st century will decline as that of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
OUP USA
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Series
What Everyone Needs to Know
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199973590
SKU
V9780199973590
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About Mira Kamdar
Mira Kamdar is the author of the award-winning memoir Motiba's Tattoos: A Granddaughter's Journey into her Indian Family's Past and Planet India: The Turbulent Rise of the World's Largest Democracy, which has been translated and published in more than a dozen foreign editions. A former Paris-based member of The New York Times Editorial Board writing on international affairs, her work ... Read more
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: ... Read more
Ian Bremmer, President of Eurasia group and author of Us vs. Them: ... Read more