10/10/2008 Jean-Luc Racine, Politique étrangère, World Policy Conference 2008 (hors-série). "Today, India is still outside the UN's sanctum sanctorum, and its relative contribution to global trade has increased only marginally. Yet India's perception of itself has changed dramatically, as has its image of the world and, just as important, the new image the world has of India."

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Résumé

The decisive transition India embarked upon nearly two decades ago has developed through an interplay of perceptions that has created the intellectual conditions needed, both in India and abroad, for change to materialize. At the end of the 1980s, India was stuck in a paradox. On the one hand, it was the direct heir of a brilliant civilization anchored in 3,000 years of intellectual and material accomplishments, and was on the verge of becoming the second country on Earth whose population exceeded 1 billion. On the other hand, its historical depth and demographic expanse were not matched by the country's economic and diplomatic status.

Jean-Luc Racine est directeur de recherches au Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), centre d'études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud, EHESS.