India's spatial imaginations of South Asia : power, commerce, and community / Shibashis Chatterjee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chatterjee, Shibashis, author.

Series:

Oxford international relations in South Asia series

The Oxford international relations in South Asia series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

India--Foreign relations.

India.

International relations.

India--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xxi, 225 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

By mapping India's spatial imaginations underlying Indian foreign policy toward South Asia, Shibashis Chatterjee argues that India's understanding of its neighbourhood is informed by a politics of realism as South Asia remains a 'space' defined in terms of power and sovereign territoriality in contrast to alternative imaginations based on the market or community. This understanding is one of India's ruling elites consisting of politicians, cutting across party lines, key bureaucrats, army chiefs, and influential policy intellectuals. While alternative imagination/s of South Asia is indeed ideationally possible, the politics necessary to make this happen is virtually nonexistent. While India's relations with neighbours have varied with regimes over time, these have moved between fixed points of references, constituted by its imagination of South Asia as a space of power and territorial control. The book tells a story of India's spatial imaginations of its neighbourhood and reveals how the differentiated cartography of territorial nationalism still looms large on our shared ontology of social space.

Contents:

1 Territoriality, Sovereignty, and the State: South Asia and the Politics of Space p. 1

2 Globalization, Democratization, Liberal Peace, and Human Security in South Asia p. 46

3 Securing South Asia: A Realist Odyssey p. 77

4 India and the SAARC: Security Commerce, and Community p. 116

5 Imageries of Space: Looking East and the Indo-Pacific p. 151.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199489886

0199489882

OCLC:

1042355847

Publisher Number:

99980339759