ABSTRACT
This chapter explains about seven scenarios that portray diverse permutations of the European Union (EU) - India relationship. Scenario 1 is a vision of a healthy, educated, sanitized and increasingly de-agriculturalized India taking its place among other developed nations through a long bourgeois revolution. While Scenario 1 may present the preferred outcome from a modernist point of view, Scenario 2 better catches the long-term evolutionary view. Unlike Scenario 1, Scenario 6 does not posit the merger of all rivers in the great ocean of modernity. If Scenario 7 is traceable in universities and in cotton fields, one might well ask whether comparable cultural hybridization has reached the European Commission. While Scenarios 3, 4 and 5 are less often voiced, the world is currently getting a taste of Scenario 1's narrative of modernization under the benign Raj of Globalization, and of Scenario 2's evolutionary message.
