Epilogue

The China–India field of study is a now a booming industry. Both comparisons and connections between the two giants are being researched and commented upon; more recently the relationship is being viewed in terms of their regional and global impact (Sen 2017). Why this is happening seems obvious enough, even if there are protests that such a procedure may be methodologically unsound. While population size (including the combined population), long histories, and broadly parallel modern developments are often cited to validate the study, the critics invoke the Himalayan barrier over millennia, entirely different political and social systems, and, not least, the vastly greater size of the contemporary Chinese economy compared to the Indian one....