This book conducts a comparative analysis of social and economic changes in the welfare state transformations in China and India, at national and sub-national levels. Discussions are made based on impacts from the social and economic changes in the last century and the fourth industrial revolution on welfare state transformations in China and India, the world's two largest countries in terms of population and density.
First-hand empirical work is conducted by a group of scholars from India and China, which draws on inter-disciplinary and cross-cultural academic traditions to deepen social, cultural and legal understanding between the two countries.

This book would appeal to undergraduate and graduate students in comparative sociology, political science, law and comparative welfare studies as well as researchers in these fields, as well as researchers in policy think-tanks and research institutes and officials in government and non-governmental organizations.

Keerty Nakray is a Professor at Jindal Global Law School, O. P. Jindal Global University, NCR Delhi, India. Dr. Nakray has published in leading journals on gender budgets, child-sensitive budgets and comparative social policy. Dr. Nakray holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy from Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Zhang Yi is a Research Fellow and Director at the National Institute of Social Development of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China. In recent years his research has focused on the fields of class structure, population studies and family sociology.

John Clammer is a Professor at Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, O. P. Jindal Global University, India. He is a graduate of Oxford University, where he completed his D.Phil. in Social Anthropology. He has published widely across a range of areas including development sociology, religion, art and society, urban sociology, social and cultural theory, and economic anthropology. 

Wenjuan Zhang is an Associate Professor and Assistant Dean for International Collaborations at Jindal Global Law School, O. P. Jindal Global University in India. She also heads the Center for India-China Studies at O. P. Jindal Global University.