Politics of the 'Other' in India and China

Lion Koenig is Adjunct Faculty at the Centre for Culture, Media and Governance, New Delhi, India. He is the co-editor of Globalisation and Governance in India: New Challenges to Society and Institutions also published by Routledge (2015).Bidisha Chaudhuri is a faculty member at the Centre for Information Technology and Public Policy (CITAPP) at International Institute of Information Technology-Bangalore (IIITB), India. She is the author of the book E-Governance in India: Interlocking Politics, Technology and Culture, which has been published by Routledge (2014).

• Introduction PART I: Concepts in Context: The Case of India 1. The Hindu Nationalist Strategy of Stigmatisation and Emulation of ‘Threatening Others’: An Indian Style Fascism? 2. Stretching Secularism: Conceptual Equivocality in the Indian Context 3. Muslim Citizens versus Citizen Muslims: A Study of Discursive Strategies in Contemporary India 4. ‘Back to the roots’: The Indigenisation of Western Party Politics in Post-colonial India 5. Indian Federalism: A Hybrid Solution to the Problem of Diversity and Political Order 6. Politics of ‘Good Governance’: "Otherising" Governance in India 7. Self and Other in the Making of Foreign Policy: The Terms of Discourse in Indo-European Relations PART II: Concepts in Context: The Case of China 8. Class Politics and the Entrenchment of the Party-State in Modern China 9. The Chinese Assimilation of ‘Social Class’: Intellectual Discourses on Jieji between 1899 and 1949 10. Chinese Dreams of Socialism: Visions of a Better Future 11. Democracy with Chinese Characteristics: The Primacy of the Nation 12. ‘Othering’ in the Construction of Chinese Citizenship 13. ‘Renquan’—Chinese Human Rights: An ‘Import’ from the West or a Chinese ‘Export’? 14. Soft Power in China: Adaptation and Development of a Fashionable Concept 15. Hegemony in Chinese? Ba in Chinese International Relations

"Noteworthy is the foreword by T. K. Om-men who succinctly summarises the Europe-an imagery of the "Other" from the age of discovery until the present and shows that while the terminology changes, the (mis)conceptions often do not... Subrata Mitra provides a highly original contribution on Indo–EU relations. He points out that the idea of rational Self and irrational Other in European thinking entered politics and political science in the shape of "modernisation, development and good governance".Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam, ASIEN The German Journal on Contemporary Asia