Power and diplomacy : India's foreign policies during the Cold War / Zorawar Daulet Singh.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780199095346 (ebook) :Subject(s): India -- Foreign relations -- 1947-1984
| Cold War | India -- Politics and government -- 1947-Additional Physical Form: Print version : 9780199489640DDC classification: 327.54009045 LOC classification: DS448Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: The notion that non-alignment was a single immutable grain of thought shaping India's foreign policy since its inception is a popular view. But it is not accurate. Using extensive including new archival material, this book recovers another layer of India's strategic culture that had been largely lost to history. The author not only reconstructs the worldviews and strategies that underlay geopolitics during the Nehru and Indira Gandhi years, he also illuminates the dramatic transformation in India's foreign policy and how policymakers redefined some of their most fundamental precepts on India's role in the subcontinent and extended Asian neighbourhood.
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This edition previously issued in print: 2019.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The notion that non-alignment was a single immutable grain of thought shaping India's foreign policy since its inception is a popular view. But it is not accurate. Using extensive including new archival material, this book recovers another layer of India's strategic culture that had been largely lost to history. The author not only reconstructs the worldviews and strategies that underlay geopolitics during the Nehru and Indira Gandhi years, he also illuminates the dramatic transformation in India's foreign policy and how policymakers redefined some of their most fundamental precepts on India's role in the subcontinent and extended Asian neighbourhood.
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