New Publication: "Exploring Emerging India – Eight Essays"

India's economic rise since the 1990s has been followed by a more prominent global role for the country. Despite economic setbacks in recent years and huge domestic challenges like poverty, caste issues, and gender inequality, India today is almost universally characterised as an “emerging power”. At the same time, the country continues to show an enormous diversity.

Thus, exploring emerging India can surely not be confined to economic analysis only. Instead, it is vital to take current developments in domestic and international politics, society, culture, religion, and political thinking into consideration as well. Following an interdisciplinary approach, contributions from Political Science, International Relations, Indology, Political Theory, and Economics are fundamental in order to grasp the country's diversity.

This collection, edited by Philipp Gieg, Timo Lowinger, and Gisela Müller-Brandeck-Bocquet, assembles eight essays which, individually, serve as working papers reflecting the authors' various research focuses, while collectively composing a multifaceted and multidisciplinary picture of emerging India:

1. Introduction: Exploring Emerging India
Philipp Gieg and Timo Lowinger

2. Modi Government: A Year in Office
Valerian Rodrigues

3. Indian Economy after the Fourteenth Lok Sabha Election: Risks and Opportunities
Amitabh Kundu

4. Turbulences in India’s Path of Democratization
Matthias Gsänger

5. India – an Emerging Economic Power and its Foreign Policy: A Perspective
S. Shaji

6. India as a Member of BRICS and its Relations with South Africa
Aparajita Biswas

7. The EU-India Strategic Partnership: Achievements, Shortcomings, Prospects
Gisela Müller-Brandeck-Bocquet

8. Religion within the Secular State – Some Theoretical Remarks
Michael Becker

9. (Trans-)Gender Issues in Contemporary Indian and German Society
Elisabeth Schömbucher-Kusterer

The volume thereby reflects the approach the University of Würzburg’s Centre for Modern India and the Institute for Political Science and Sociology’s India Forum are committed to: bringing together different academic disciplines in order to generate nuanced insights into India’s manifold diversity.

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