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India's Nuclear Policy

By: Bharat Karnad

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This book examines the Indian nuclear policy, doctrine, strategy and posture, clarifying the elastic concept of credible minimum deterrence at the center of the country's approach to nuclear security. This concept, Karnad demonstrates, permits the Indian nuclear forces to be beefed up, size and quality-wise, and to acquire strategic reach and clout, even as the qualifier minimum suggests an overarching concern for moderation and economical use of resources, and strengthens India's claims to be a responsible nuclear weapon state. Based on interviews with Indian political leaders, nuclear scientists, and military and civilian nuclear policy planners, it provides unique insights into the workings of India's nuclear decision-making and deterrence system. Moreover, by juxtaposing the Indian nuclear policy and thinking against the theories of nuclear war and strategic deterrence, nuclear escalation, and nuclear coercion, offers a strong theoretical grounding for the Indian approach to nuclear war and peace, nuclear deterrence and escalation, nonproliferation and disarmament, and to limited war in a nuclearized environment. It refutes the alarmist notions about a nuclear flashpoint in South Asia, etc. which derive from stereotyped analysis of India-Pakistan wars, and examines India's likely conflict scenarios involving China and, minorly, Pakistan.

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0275999467

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Hindi Cinema and Pakistan

Screening the Idea and the Reality

By: Meenakshi Bharat

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Hindi Cinema and Pakistan

Screening the Idea and the Reality

By: Meenakshi Bharat

Ever since the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent, Mumbai-based Hindi cinema has been returning compulsively to the idea of Pakistan, sometimes as the desirable other, sometimes as the horrifying antagonist. Hindi Cinema and Pakistan traces the genesis and development of this theme in Hindi cinema in the 1950s, showcasing its relevance as a tool that both reflects and shapes how India sees its neighbour, the India–Pakistan relationship, and itself. The book is a serious, multi-platform, multi-pronged exploration of the appearances, invocations, representations and treatment of Pakistan and Pakistanis in Hindi cinema. It follows Hindi cinema’s efforts to come to terms with the ‘idea’ and ‘reality’ of Pakistan. Through in-depth analyses of the enmity and rivalry between the two subcontinental nations in Partition films, thrillers, epic war films and sports films, to screen depictions of the shared cultural past and similarities in films on cross-border love or in films that show a reaching out through humour, this book investigates the visualization of Pakistan and contextualizes these representations within the broader frameworks of India’s political, socio-cultural and popular discourse. The extensive reach of the in-depth textual analyses of Hindi cinema will make this volume interesting and valuable both to the lay reader and to researchers and academics of cultural studies, media and film studies, and the study of socio-psychological violence in media and culture.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040118119

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Indian Defence Review

Jan-Mar 2010 (Vol. 25.1)

By: Bharat Verma

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Indian Defence Review

Jan-Mar 2010 (Vol. 25.1)

By: Bharat Verma

In this volume: Unprepared and unwilling Peace with Pakistan: an idea whose time has passed Admiral Nirmal Verma, Chief of the Naval Staff Future Trends in Aviation Indian Shipbuilding: key to maritime and economic security Army's Capability Accretion Women in the Armed Forces: misconceptions and facts Facing the Dragon: is India prepared? International Security Challenges and Emerging Flashpoints The Way to Regional Power Status Evolution of the Indian Submarine Arm Aerospace and Defense News Rheinmetall PTC Lockheed Martin EADS Eurofighter Controp Harris Demystifying the New 'Buy and Make (Indian)' Procedure Defense Offsets: proving detrimental to the services Pitfalls in Arms Procurement Process Design Review of Naval Platforms Offset Contracts: under defense procurement procedures in India India 2025: a global defense exports hub? India-Iran Defense Cooperation China 2010 China: friend or foe India and Its Neighbors Kargil: an IAF perspective U.S. Military Surge in Afganistan Combating 'Red Terror' Maoist Threat and Politics Asian Security Environment: India's options India and the U.S.: haunting past and beckoning future Is India Preparing to Lose?

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Lancer Publishers

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8170621755

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9788170621751

Indian Defence Review Vol 22.4

By: Bharat Verma

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Indian Defence Review Vol 22.4

By: Bharat Verma

Indian Defence Review (IDR) is India's best-known defense journal. Over the year the journal has attained the "most quoted" status by defense and security analysts worldwide. The journal offers an incisive analysis of defense and politico-security affairs focused on Asia. In This Volume: DEMOCRACY AND SECURITY - Bharat Verma (Ed) INDIAN DEFENCE REVIEW COMMENT US POODLE OR CHINESE POODLE? - B Raman INDIAN INTELLIGENCE: The Fiddling Has to Stop... - B Raman IAF: Flying into the Future - Air Commodore Jasjit Singh DEFENCE and TECHNOLOGY MONITOR AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS - IDR Research Team BLUE PRINT FOR INDIAN AEROSAPCE INDUSTRY - Air Chief Marshal Fali Homi Major ENERGIZING AEROSPACE INDUSTRY: New Opportunities for Partnerships - Chris Chadwick INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS - Richard Kirkland TURBOMECA: HIGH PROFILE PRESENCE IN INDIA BEL GIVES RS.84.96 CR DIVIDEND TO GOVT EUROFIGHTER TYPHOON IN THE RACE MALABAR: Navy Tests Her Mettle - Captain Vinay Garg VARUNA 2007 THE NEW 'MAKE' PROCEDURE: A Retrograde Step - Maj Gen Mrinal Suman WARSHIP BUILDING: Cost and Time Overruns - Vice Admiral Rajeshwer Nath CHINA: Friend or Foe? - Claude Arpi MILITARY SERVICE PAY - Lt Gen Vijay Oberoi IMAGE OF THE ARMED FORCES - Group Capt AG Bewoor TIBET: The Real Issue - Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal PUNJAB'S PAKISTAN - RSN Singh SRI LANKAN TAMILS: Anatomy of Indian Involvement - Anand K Verma NBC DISASTERS: Prevention and Management - Lt Gen Shankar Prasad PAKISTAN: A Convoluted Script - Wilson John DEFENCE UNIVERSITY FOR INDIA: An Appraisal of the Proposition - Maj Gen Mrinal Suman B Raman: BID TO ASSASSINATE BENAZIR LTTE'S ANURADHAPURA RAID JIHADI ANARCHY IN SWAT SABOTAGE IN NWFP

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817062150X

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India's Nuclear Policy

By: Bharat Karnad

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By: Bharat Karnad

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Shooting Terror

Terrorism in Hindi Films

By: Meenakshi Bharat

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Shooting Terror

Terrorism in Hindi Films

By: Meenakshi Bharat

Shooting Terror highlights the disturbing immediacy of acts of terror and how cinema responds to them. It follows the changing representations of terrorism in Hindi cinema by fielding in-depth textual analyses of films such as Roja, Maachis, Black Friday, Tere Bin Laden, Uri: The Surgical Strike, among others. It traces how terror and the terrorist have come to be viewed in the Indian cultural space and lays the grounds for a multivalent, perspectival reading of cinema and terrorism. Moving from the threat of terror condensed in the Mogambo-esque villain in Mr. India, to the showcasing of terror and the terrorist in their lived-in realities in Haider and Shahid, the book explores the fraught connections between terror and the themes of devastation and trauma; between terror and the urban cityscape. It also seeks to highlight the place of humour and satire in films on terrorism and the presence of the reactionary far right in these films. One of the first books to present a composite picture of terrorism in contemporary Hindi cinema, this volume will be of interest to researchers and academics of cultural studies, media and film studies, and the study of sociopsychological violence in media and culture.

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1000024938

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Nuclear Weapons and Indian Security

The Realist Foundations of Strategy

By: Bharat Karnad

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Nuclear Weapons and Indian Security

The Realist Foundations of Strategy

By: Bharat Karnad

This book deals with the nature of the Indian strategic mindset and policies. It is an insider s analysis and an account of India as an emerging nuclear power, which contradicts the nation s image of non-violence and non-alignment during the Cold War.

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1403926476

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Staggering Forward

Narendra Modi and India's Global Ambition

By: Bharat Karnad

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Staggering Forward

Narendra Modi and India's Global Ambition

By: Bharat Karnad

Analysing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's foreign and military policies in the context of India's socio-political and economic milieu, which has evolved between 1991 and 2014, this book offers a critical perspective that helps to understand the country's present national security strategy.

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9353051959

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