{"product_id":"the-india-decade-why-the-worlds-next-superpower-is-already-here-9798197320780","title":"The India Decade: Why the World's Next Superpower Is Already Here","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Nicholas Holt\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Asia - India \u0026amp; South Asia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe most consequential story in geopolitics is not happening in Washington or Beijing. It's happening in Delhi.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIndia has just become the world's most populous nation. Its economy is on track to become the third-largest on earth within a decade. It is the anchor of the Quad, the linchpin of the Indo-Pacific strategy, and the only democracy large enough to serve as a genuine counterweight to China. The world's most ambitious digital public infrastructure was built not in Silicon Valley but in Bengaluru. And yet India remains, for most Western observers, a country of paradoxes - too complex to understand, too consequential to ignore. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe India Decade\u003c\/b\u003e resolves that paradox. Analyst Nicholas Holt brings the same rigorous, non-partisan framework that drove his acclaimed *After America* and *The China Playbook* to bear on the rise of the world's largest democracy. The result is the most accessible and analytically grounded account of India's ascent available to the general reader. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside The India Decade: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe historical arc from colonial dependency to civilisation-state: what 1947 - and 1991 - really changed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe demographic dividend: why India's median age of 28 is both its greatest asset and its greatest test\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Quad and the Indo-Pacific: how India became the West's indispensable strategic partner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Himalayan shadow: India's unresolved border with China and what it means for the future\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Indian Ocean: sea power, maritime strategy, and the next great naval competition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDigital India: Aadhaar, UPI, and the public infrastructure the world is trying to copy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMake in India and the manufacturing gambit: can India take the factory-of-the-world baton from China?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe challenges that could derail the decade - and how India can overcome them\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cb\u003eA companion to \u003ci\u003eAfter America\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe China Playbook\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Semiconductor Wars\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - but fully standalone. For investors, policymakers, students, and anyone who wants to understand the force that will define the second half of the twenty-first century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe India Decade has already begun. The question is whether you're ready for it.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47891727417495,"sku":"9798197320780","price":1954.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798197320780.webp?v=1781184623","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-india-decade-why-the-worlds-next-superpower-is-already-here-9798197320780","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}