According to a new report by the London School of Economics, India is not likely to become a superpower and it should not strive to become one, despite showing an impressive economic growth in recent times.

In `India: The next super power,' several authors discussed India's roles in the fields of economic, political, environmental and military. Authors say that despite India's impressive growth in many fields, the factors like caste system, growing wealth inequalities and environmental costs as well as factors like corruption and domestic conflicts will stop it and continue to stop it from becoming a counter weight to China.

Mr Ramachandra Guha, the Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs at the LSE has said that the country had enough domestic problems to deal with.

"We need to repair one by one the institutions that have safeguarded our unity amid diversity, and to forge, also one by one the new institutions that can help us meet the fresh challenges of the 21st century," he said.

Author Mr Nicholas Blarel said that the country's attempts to increase its "soft power" will only become meaningful f it uses it in a planned and more systematic and planned way.