The Discourse of “Asia Rising” in an Elite Indian School

Abstract

In recent years, much has been written about the rise of Asia as an economic and political power. Both academic and popular books have sought to describe and explain the strong economic performance of many Asian countries, not only China and Korea but also India and the ASEAN countries. Impressed by this success, journalists and scholars in Europe and the United States have been competing with each other to find appropriate metaphors to capture the changing economic and political architecture of the world. Fareed Zakaria (2006) has, for example, used the term “Post-American World” to describe the rise of Asia and by implication the decline of America. The title of Martin Jacques’s (2009) rec..