Cambridge University Press, New Delhi, India, 2014. Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. The five major emerging national economies known as the BRICS – Brazil Russia India China and South Africa – have gained on the world stage. For BRICS watchers and anyone interested in the future of India’s burgeoning economy twenty-two scholars have developed one of the most comprehensive volumes on India: Shaping the Emerging World. India faces a defining period. Its status as a global power is not only recognized but increasingly institutionalized even as geopolitical shifts create both opportunities and challenges. The country experienced rapid growth through participation in the existing multilateral order – now its development strategy makes it dependent on this order. Despite limitations India increasingly has the ideas people and tools to shape the global order in the words of Jawaharal Nehru ‘not wholly or in full measure but very substantially.’ Will India keep its ‘tryst with destiny’ and emerge as one of the shapers of the emerging international order