This book analyses India’s relations with its neighbours (China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka) and other world powers (USA, UK, and Russia) over a span of 60 years. It traces the roots of independent India’s foreign policy from the Partition and its fallout, its nascent years under Nehru, and non-alignment to the influence of economic liberalization and globalization. The volume delves into the underlying reasons of persistent problems confronting India’s foreign policy-makers, as well as foreign-policy interface with defence and domestic policies. This book will be indispensable to students, scholars and teachers of South Asian studies, international relations, political science, and modern Indian history.
This book provides a critical evaluation of the successes and failures of Indian government at many levels. Jayanta Kumar Ray argues that India cannot claim to have reached the attainable level of good performance. The government of India has failed to adopt or implement policies conducive to such an optimum use of available human and material resources as to replace mass poverty with mass prosperity. Accessing a variety of primary and secondary source materials, Ray highlights the wide gap between potentialities and actualities, and the lapses in economic, political, social and administrative fields.
The importance of a thorough analysis of the current state of India-Bangladesh relations can hardly be exaggerated. Sceptics may observe that India can afford to remain indifferent to relationships with Bangladesh, whereas Bangladesh cannot do so vis-à-vis India. But realities do not admit of such skeptic oversimplification. With India s northeast region remaining chronically unstable, and with count ries across this region, e.g. China and Myanmar, trying to improve their relations with Bangladesh (which itself provides a commercial gateway to India s northeast region), India has to upgrade substantially its relations with Bangladesh in order to safeguard some of its vital interests. The necessity to strengthen the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) provides an additional impetus to the urgency of such upgradation. The disparity in the size and resources of India and Bangladesh are but a misleading indicator of the present importance of India-Bangladesh relations.
This book analyses India’s relations with its neighbours (China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka) and other world powers (USA, UK, and Russia) over a span of 60 years. It traces the roots of independent India’s foreign policy from the Partition and its fallout, its nascent years under Nehru, and non-alignment to the influence of economic liberalization and globalization. The volume delves into the underlying reasons of persistent problems confronting India’s foreign policy-makers, as well as foreign-policy interface with defence and domestic policies. This book will be indispensable to students, scholars and teachers of South Asian studies, international relations, political science, and modern Indian history.
Papers from a Conference Organized by the Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP) and the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS) in Kolkata, India, January 16-17, 2008
Papers from a Conference Organized by the Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP) and the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS) in Kolkata, India, January 16-17, 2008
... India thus represents in many ways both a model of religious diversity and an example of the problems diversity may cause. At the center of this dichotomy stands the struggle for political power, which perhaps more than anything should be conceived of as a trigger to the current problems. For example, Christian groups in Northeast India perceive pressure both from Hindu missionaries and the Indian state, while Christian missionaries, for their part, are seen by other groups as political tools for various interests. Buddhist groups strive to reassert their political influence through regional Buddhist Associations while some Hindu groups have attempted to promote nationalist ideas through Hindu missionaries to preserve national unity. All of this promises to render India's struggle for national unity a long one. The European experience of nation-state formation suggests that the consolidation of citizenships and the nation-state takes time and that the creation of a homogeneous identity is a constant battle between the state and other sources of identity, such as language groups. Although India has a constitution granting its citizens equal rights, society is far from adapting to this in full and there is a wide gap between the state and society. ... To further our knowledge of this the Stockholm-based Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP) organized a two-day conference in Kolkata, India together with Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies (MAKAIAS) on January 16-17, 2008 on the topic of the political roles of religious communities. Scholars and politicians from throughout northern India were invited to discuss this in the Indian context. ... Seven questions were asked: Which religious communities are of such importance that we need to pay attention to them as political actors? How are these religions important for a person's identity? What legal status follows religious belief in India? How do state authorities deal with their problems (where these touch on religious communities) in the realm of practical politics? What are the effects of the different approaches? What can be done in the way of conflict prevention and peace building to address emerging tensions? And finally, how are religious communities changing as a consequence of globalization? The collection of essays in this report is the outcome of the Kolkata conference and the discussions held."--Introd.
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