Emerging power Emerging power An emerging power or rising power is a term used as recognition of the rising, primarily influence of a nation—or union of nations—which has steadily increased their presence in global affairs. Such a power aspires to have a more powerful position or role in international relations, either regionally or globally, and possess sufficient resources and levels of development that such goals are potentially achievable. A term also used to describe such a state is "rising power". Rising powers such as China and India may also be viewed as coincidental to the perceived decline of American hegemony in world
Historical Vedic religion religious ideas of Indo-Europeans who migrated into the Indus River valley region of the subcontinent, whose religion relied on the Vedic corpus including the early Upanishads. Brahmanism, according to Heesterman, refers to the religion that had expanded to a region stretching from the northwest subcontinent to the Ganges valley. Brahmanism included the Vedic corpus and non-Vedic literature such as the "Dharmasutras" and "Dharmasastras", and was the version of ancient Hinduism that gave prominence to the priestly (Brahmin) class of the society. According to the "Encyclopædia Britannica", Brahmanism refers to both the predominant position of the priests (Brahmans) and the importance