Self-consciousness is a state of mind induced by a feeling of being critically observed by others. Former colonial powers have experienced this feeling to an increasing extent in recent years. These experiences were similar among several nations such as the British, the Dutch, the Belgians, the...

Do political decentralisation and inter state competition favour innovation and growth? There has long been a lively debate surrounding this question, going back to David Hume and Immanuel Kant. This book is a new attempt to test its veracity. The existing literature tends to assume that the...

Diplomatic relations between India and Germany were established by Nehru and Adenauer in 1951. Nehru visited Germany in 1956 and talked to Adenauer at length. Germany later on provided economic aid to India and helped to build the Rourkela steel mill and the IIT Madras (Chennai), German cultural...

Seven nations lost their colonial empires after the World War II. Italy and Japan had to relinquish their colonies immediately after the war. Great Britain granted independence to India in 1947 and released most of its African colonies in 1960. France and the Netherlands reclaimed their colonies...