India}}}s Grand Strategy History, Theory, Cases [Paperback]

As India prepares to take its place in shaping the course of an Asian century, there are increasing debates about its grand strategy and its role in a future world order. This timely and topical book presents a range of historical and contemporary interpretations and case studies on the theme. Drawing upon rich and diverse narratives that have informed Indias strategic discourse, security and foreign policy, it charts a new agenda for strategic thinking on postcolonial India from a non-Western perspective. Comprehensive and insightful, the work will prove indispensable to those in defence and strategic studies, foreign policy, political science, and modern Indian history. It will also interest policy-makers, think-tanks and diplomats.

Foreword Arvind Gupta and Sven G. Holtsmark. Acknowledgements.Introduction:Indias Grand Strategic Thought and Practice.1.Grand Strategic Thought in the Ramayana and MahabharataSwarna Rajagopalan2. Strategy, Legitimacy and the Imperium: Framing the Mughal Strategic Discourse Jayashree Vivekanandan3. Liberal Thought and Colonial Military Institutions Srinath Raghavan4. Indian Grand Strategy: Six Schools of Thought Kanti Bajpai 5. Nehrus Advocacy of Internationalism and Indian Foreign Policy S. Kalyanaraman6. Economic Modernisation and the Growing Influence of Neoliberalism in Indias Strategic Thought N.S. Sisodia7. An Elephant with a Small Footprint: The Realist Roots of Indias Strategic Thought and Policies Bharat Karnad 8. Jiski Lathi, Uski Bhains: The Hindu Nationalist View of International Politics Rahul Sagar9. Securing India: Gandhian Intuitions Siddharth Mallavarapu10. &lC*