Speaker:
Prem Shankar Jha, Author and Independent Journalist
Discussants:
Evan Feigenbaum, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Chas Freeman, President, Middle East Policy Council
Ashley Tellis, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Prem Shankar Jha is a former information adviser to the prime minister of India, and former editor of and contributor to Hindu, Hindustan Times, Economic Times, and Financial Express. He has recently been a visiting fellow at the Fairbank Center at Harvard University and the visiting chair of India’s political economics at the Paris Institute of Political Studies.
In Crouching Dragon, Hidden Tiger, Jha explains how China and India are in the early stages of a jarring transition as they transform from pre-capitalist to capitalist societies. He looks at the interaction of economic with political and social change in the two countries as they have progressed down the road to capitalism. He examines the social and political conflicts generated by market liberalization, and shows how the course of development in both countries has been determined by the conflict between competing strata of the newly-employed capitalist class. Since neither country possess the institutions to reconcile these conflicts, in Jha's view, both countries will encounter a future that is less certain, more complicated, and potentially conflicted, than previously recognized.
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