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The purpose of this conference is for participants to examine, analyze, and discuss current trends and events that are shaping Asia and its relations to the West and to advance the diffusion and production of knowledge in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts of Asia.
While the history of interactions between China and India is a long one going back at least to the arrival of Buddhism in China, there is a lacuna in accounts of twentieth and twenty-first-century perceptions of each other, philosophical as well as cultural commonalities. Cross-border archival research too remains a huge challenge. Analyses of how these two powers co-relate in terms not only of their interactions and aspirations, their people’s conceptualizations but also of philosophical/political ideas found in their traditions is fundamental towards understanding the contours of dialogues, collaborations, and conflicts. This panel attempts to put together three papers that consider the histories, possibilities, and nature of interactions both between and beyond these two entities.