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India is at a crossroads. To develop its industrial capacity and boost exports, the country needs to sign new free trade agreements. The announcement of a trade agreement as part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (tpp) is putting pressure on India to speed up its own negotiations with trade partners. East Asia is an ideal target for India, if a return to the Look East policy is any indication. However, India has to deal with China, a central player in trade negotiations such as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (rcep). This article examines Indian reactions to the tpp and highlights the consequences of such an agreement for India.
Keywords: Inde, ptp, rcep, règles commerciales, Chine, India, tpp, rcep, trade rules, China, India, tpp, rcep, reglas comerciales, China
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Indian independence played a significant role in the transmission of the discourse on decolonization around the world, notably in French Canada. India offers not only the example of a British colony freeing itself from the British Empire, the symbol of colonial alienation, but it becomes the incarnation of a certain idea of decolonization that will be adopted in French Canada. This discourse offers to French Canadians a globalized conception of their historical condition. Through the use of Québécois journals and newspapers, notable Le Devoir and L'Action nationale, this article analyses references to Indian independence and show how it shapes a French-Canadian discourse on decolonization well before the Quiet Revolution.
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This article explains how the intensifying Sino-Indian rivalry, which has crystalized around New Delhi's oppostion to China's Belt and Road initiative, has led India to reconceptualize its immediate strategic environment and redimension its foreign policy instruments. India's regional policy now extends beyond the concept of a South Asian regional security complex developed by Barry Buzan and Ole Weaver to integrate into a transregional space, the Indo-Pacific zone. The construction of this new geoeconomic and geopolitical space is aided and abetted by the strategic and normative convergence between India, the United States, Australia, and Japan. Deployment of the Indian policy in the Indo-Pacific Zone is characterized by active diplomacy aimed at guaranteeing India's maritime security, providing a political and economic alternative to China's silk road ambitions, and strengthening Indian influence in the region.
Keywords: Indopacifique, Inde – politique étrangère, complexe de sécurité régional, Indo-Pacific, India – foreign policy, regional security complex, Indo-Pacífico, India – Política Exterior, complejo de seguridad regional
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The authors expose the motives, which are primarily economic, which presided over the introduction of Quebec Studies in India, as well as the means by which this new material was integrated into the Francophone Studies offered by French departments. Using a 1990 report by Fernand Harvey and Joseph Melançon, the article provides a brief reminder of the first attempts in Canadian Studies in India, before considering work undertaken since then. Masters and Doctoral theses as well as congresses and conferences in the domain of Quebec Studies are then sorted according to the French Studies Centre where the work was conducted.
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In a conference whose title was deliberately provocative, Rajeev Bhargava (2010) stated that India could serve as a model to the West regarding respect for religious diversity. This statement was founded on what makes India unique, i.e. the fact that intra- and inter-religious diversity are at the heart of secularism in India. Taking this observation as a point of departure, I examine how India is portrayed in the French language press in Quebec, in regard to how the country manages religious and cultural diversity, in terms of policies or concrete interethnic relations. What events are selected? How are they covered? Does this coverage reveal a Western-centric view? Does it echo events in Quebec/Canada? Finally, is the notion of “model” relevant?
Keywords: Inde, Québec, multiculturalisme, occidentalocentrisme, analyse de discours, India, Quebec, multiculturalism, western-centrism, discourse analysis
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AbstractWhen discussing cultural encounters, the term “intercultural” is more than relevant. Yet, despite the abundance of literature related to intercultural experiences, anthropology has been peculiarly silent on interculturality as a concept. Paradoxically, (inter)cultural encounters are at the core of anthropological thought. They are omnipresent, but expressed in other terms. In this article, I apply Gananath Obeyesekere's myth-model theory to the cases of Western expatriates in India, thus using anthropological tools in order to add another dimension to theories of cultural encounters. By studying the various ways Western expatriates transform and reappropriate the myths of the renunciant, the philanthropist and the hippy, myth-model theory allows me to hold cultural encounters as an object of anthropological scrutiny while preserving the thickness of the field. This approach goes beyond step-by-step simplistic theories, since it highlights the contexts and complexities of cultural encounters by taking into account what precedes and surrounds them – both in an imaginary and historical axis.
Keywords: interculturalité, mythes, Inde, Occident, immigration, Cultural encounters, myth, India, West, immigration
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The ancient land of Kashmir remains a bone of contention between India and Pakistan. The dispute started after the Partition of India in 1947, when Kashmir was a princely state. Following a war between India and Pakistan, it was divided between the two belligerent nations. Since then, each nation has claimed Kashmir in its entirety. There are also some who want to see Kashmir gain its independence. This is not a simple conflict, since both the nations involved have a nuclear arsenal. Moreover, the Kashmiris have to suffer the violent acts of terrorists supported by Pakistan and the atrocities committed by Indian security forces. The two neighbours continue to make efforts to resolve this issue, despite the failure of many previous attempts.This article examines the position of the various actors in the conflict, including not only India, Pakistan and the Kashmiris, but also the United Nations Organisation. The author demonstrates that the principle of a people's right to self-determination conflicts with the principle of national sovereignty.