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India's Diversity and Globalisation

其他書名	Unifying Forces and Innovation
出版	SSRN, 2014
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=fpbjzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋India is a multilinguial, multi-religious and multi-caste country and has been a dominant player in the world system and part of the global economy since the ages. Its civilisational past has been shaped and has evolved through a number of events, crisis, people and communities. It has not been an isolated country at any point of time as there has been a continuous exchange of ideas, products and people with other countries and civilisations. It therefore becomes essential to understand India in a global context to examine its problems and to seek solutions. There are two types of studies focusing on changes in society, its inter-linkages with others and global system: Civilization Studies and World System Analysis. The scholars in the Civilization Studies have focused on identifying the existence of different civilizations in different geographical areas in the ancient period. Some have devoted more attention to the interrelations and mutual influences among civilizations in terms of culture and ideology, and their rise and decline through several stages. World systems Analysts on the other hand have developed a perspective to examine issues of capitalism, development and world inequalities. The world economy is a system of interconnected national economies that bring together national financial power and states that struggle to move up the hierarchy of states in terms of power and wealth. Both these groups of studies have given insight to understand the existence and growth of countries in present forms. It therefore becomes imperative to look at the key findings of these studies to have better understanding of India's socio-economic and environmental problems. This paper proposes that a good governance system can direct India's diversity and socio-economic challenges to develop an innovative society. This paper attempts to examine the following questions: How has India evolved as a civilizational entity over a period of the last 2000 years? How has globalization influenced its evolution during last few centuries? What are the unifying factors of India in terms of culture, constitutions and social processes? What are the present and new challenges, which have emerge during last 60-70 years? How is India, despite its diversity, meeting and solving such challenges? In view of growing trend of globalization, are the unifying forces still relevant or not?