![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1890 Great Britain, in a remarkable demonstration of hegemonic power, mounted a punitive expedition against the Mahdi in Sudan for the murder of the British agent Charles George Gordon. 2 Yet, in 1767, Robert Clive defeated Siraj-ud-Doula at Plassey, extracting from Mir Jafar 3 £160,000,equivalent to £21 million (2019) and £500,000, equivalent to £70 million (2019), which formed the corpus of founding the British Indian Army, London’s sword arm in Eurasian battles for two centuries. To dissect the rise and fall of the national GDP of countries, we are largely dependent on the work of Angus Maddison, according to whom, for over 500 years, China has in fact had the largest GDP except for perhaps the year 1700 when, at the height of the Moghul Empire, India assumed the first position. It would be wise of the Indian strategic community to do its own analysis, particularly if the concept of the Indo-Pacific is a forthcoming reality. The conference concluded inconclusively, suggesting that much further discussion was required on the nature of hegemony. The organizers were taken aback when most participants implied that this feared loss of hegemony would not occur. As a measure of the world’s concern, a conference was convened in February 2019by the Washington-based Office of Net Assessment to discuss the consequences of the possible forthcoming loss of hegemony by the United States. 1 Strategic circles worldwide have been in a quandary over the consequences, for, after all, despite the confusing nature of international relations, there is still a remnant of world governance, over which the world’s hegemon presides. In 2017, China overtook the United States in gross domestic product (GDP), if measured in purchasing power parity. ![]()
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