India and China: Civilisational States in a Fragmented World

Nineteen chapters, written by leading Indian and Chinese scholars, practitioners and former diplomats, are organised around four themes: the civilisational state, global landscape, multilateralism and the Global South, and the emerging world order. Contributors read dharma and tianxia as living cosmologies of order; examine Kautilyan, Confucian, Legalist and Daoist traditions of statecraft; and place Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam and Vishwa Mitra alongside the Community of Shared Future and China`s global initiatives. They trace the decade since 2014 through the Wuhan and Mamallapuram meetings and the Kazan and Tianjin summits, and assess the Russia-India-China triangle, the European dimension, and the strategic use of BRICS, the SCO and the G20 in the reform of global governance. What distinguishes this book is its structure of dialogue. Indian and Chinese authors write to shared questions, and their answers are set side by side, offering readers an unusually direct exchange between two scholarly communities that too rarely address one another at length.

• Publication date: 9 September 2026
• Publisher: Pentagon Press LLP
• Format: Hardback
• Language: English
• ISBN-13: 9788118020325