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INTRODUCTION India is emerging as a major economic and geopolitical power. Its successful long-term transformation will depend on whether economic modernization can overcome demographic, political, environmental, and institutional constraints. For decades after independence, economic growth was constrained by socialism, state controls, restrictive laws and regulations, and limited integration into the global economy. Since the liberalization reforms of the 1990s, however, India has increasingly opened up to foreign investment, manufacturing, trade, and technological development. Today, multinational companies and governments are beginning to view India not only as a possible alternative to China for investment, manufacturing, digital infrastructure, and artificial intelligence applications. If current growth trends continue, India could become the world’s third-largest economy within a few years and eventually one of the economic powers of the twenty-first century. Yet India’s rise is ...

  This was an existential war for the rebellious Americans. If they lost, leaders would be hung, Tories (loyalists) would retaliate, English rule would be harsh and revengeful. On the other hand, England could sail away and still remain a global power. England had to win, which meant destroying the American  Continental Army, disarming the militias, and establish strong political control. But the Americans did not have to win battles to win the war. They just had to continue to exist - keeping the Continental Army together  - until the British decided that the war could not be won and had become too expensive.  Opposition to the war in England was substantial and rose rapidly after 1780. King George’s cabinet was forced to resign and Parliament passed a bill to limit George’s unilateral power to fight wars (sound familiar?). Power returned to Parliament; this was the last time an English king or queen exerted any power. England had an average of over 30,000 troops bu...