Download e-book for kindle: Indian Foreign Policy: The Politics of Postcolonial Identity by Priya Chacko

By Priya Chacko

ISBN-10: 041566568X

ISBN-13: 9780415665681

The upward push of India as an incredible energy has generated new curiosity in realizing the drivers of its international coverage. This e-book argues that analysing India’s international and safeguard regulations as representational practices which produce India’s identification as a postcolonial geographical region is helping to light up the stipulations of chance within which international coverage is made.


Spanning the interval among 1947 and 2004, the booklet specializes in key moments of concern, corresponding to the India-China warfare in 1962 and the nuclear checks of 1972 and 1998, and the method of overseas affairs of vital leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru. The research sheds new mild on those key occasions and figures and develops a powerful analytical narrative round India’s international coverage behaviour, in keeping with an knowing of its postcolonial identity.


It is argued admired side of India’s id is a conception that it's a civilizational-state which brings to overseas affairs a convention of morality and moral behavior derived from its civilizational history and the adventure of its anti-colonial fight. This concept of ‘civilizational exceptionalism’, in addition to different narratives of India’s civilizational earlier, reminiscent of its vulnerability to invasion and conquest, have formed the international guidelines of governments of assorted political colors and proceed to steer a emerging India.

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