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India in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know®
India in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know®
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国連人口基金(UNFPA)の「世界人口白書2023」によれば、2023年の世界人口は80億4500万人で初めて80億人に到達し、インドがこれまで1位だった中国を抜きました。今世紀の半ばには、17億人の人口を抱え、中国に次ぐ世界第2位の経済大国になると予測されています。非自由主義的な民主主義や独裁的な指導者が世界的に増えるなか、主張の強いヒンドゥー教ナショナリズムはインドの民主的自由とそれを支える制度に新たな課題を突き付けています。欧米の影響力が低下し、アジアの大国ならびにアフリカやラテン・アメリカの新興経済国が存在感を増す多極構造へと変貌していくなかで、今後数十年間のインドの行方は非常に重要です。
本書で今日のインドについて深い知見をもたらしてくれるのは、ニューヨーク・タイムズ紙の元編集委員で、数々の受賞歴があるミラ・カムダーです。インドの古代文明と王国、宗教の多様性、植民地時代の遺産と独立運動、今日の政治と社会構造、急速に成長する経済と金融システム、21世紀の地政学的展望における位置づけ、気候変動と地球資源の減少がもたらす課題、富の集中、著しい社会格差、ビッグデータとロボティックスの台頭、そしてソーシャルメディアの役割まで幅広く取り上げ、概括しています。
   

  • Kamdar is an award-winning author who regularly writes on international affairs for leading publications around the world
  • An accessible Q&A format written in a clear, engaging style
  • Understanding India today is not only necessary but urgent. Already the world's largest democracy, it is poised to become the most populous country. The challenges it faces-climate change, income inequality, the vulnerability of democratic institutions-are being played out on a global scale

   
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 these two Asian giants and other emerging economies in Africa and Latin America rise. In India in the 21st Century, Mira Kamdar, a former member of the New York Times Editorial Board and an award-winning author, offers readers an introduction to India today in all its complexity. 
    
In a concise question-and-answer format, Kamdar addresses India's history, including its ancient civilization and kingdoms; its religious plurality; its colonial legacy and independence movement; the political and social structures in place today; its rapidly growing economy and financial system; India's place in the geopolitical landscape of the 21st century; the challenge to India posed by climate change and dwindling global resources; wealth concentration and stark social inequalities; the rise of big data and robotics; the role of social media and more. She explores India's contradictions and complications, while celebrating the merging of India's multicultural landscape and deep artistic and intellectual heritage with the Information Age and the expansion of mass media. 
   
With clarity and balance, Kamdar brings her in-depth knowledge of India and eloquent writing style to bear in this focused and incisive addition to Oxford's highly successful What Everyone Needs to Know® series.

目次: 

Introduction

Part One: How India Got to the Twenty-First Century
Section I: India's Civilizational Legacy
Section II: The British Raj and the Road to Independence
Section III: A New Republic
Part Two: Will the Twenty-First Century be India's Century?
Section I: Society
Section II: Economy
Section III: Politics
Section IV: Geopolitics
Section V: Environment

著者について: 

Mira Kamdar, Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute and an Associate Fellow at the Asia Society
 
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 TimesEditorial Board writing on international affairs, her work appears in leading publications around the world.

"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
   

"A comprehensive detailed and rich account of India's history, society, and politics that is both incisively written and rigorously researched." -- Sagarika Ghose, distinguished Indian journalist and author of Indira: India's Most Powerful Prime Minister
   

"Mira Kamdar, an astute observer of India, has produced an authoritative yet succinct introduction to a continent-sized country. She draws on India's rich history and its scientific, humane, and religious traditions to provide brisk and clear-eyed assessments of India's current affairs. As India grows, its global influence is rising too. Newcomers and old India hands alike will find this to be a valuable guide to an immense, fast-changing country." -- Adam Roberts, author of India: Superfast Primetime Ultimate Nation
    

"This deeply researched and beautifully written book is a vital gateway into modern India." -- Sonia Faleiro, author of Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars
   

"This concise book is a most useful primer for those interested in the history, politics, economics and society of contemporary India. It is written in a lucid, cogent style and is laden with pertinent information about this complex and often ill-understood country. Those seeking a quick but reliable understanding of where the country stands and is headed will benefit significantly from this work." -- Sumit Ganguly, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, Indiana University, Bloomington

商品情報

ISBN : 9780199973590

著者: 
Mira Kamdar
ページ
224 ページ
フォーマット
Paperback
サイズ
140 x 210 mm
刊行日
2018年05月
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India in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know®

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

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