'Social Capital' and its Significance in Reimagining Chindia

摘要

Writings on India-China relations in recent years are increasingly seen to be imputing Machiavellian realism to the political and, increasingly, economic sphere of interaction. The purpose of this article is to provide an alternate paradigmatic optic to view India-China relations. The article introduces the idea of the need for generating 'social capital' at the dyadic level, and the need to re-imagine the neologism of Chindia.