War and peace in contemporary India / Edited by Rudra Chaudhuri.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chaudhuri, Rudra, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diplomatic relations.

India--History, Military--21st century.

India.

History, Military.

India--Foreign relations--1984-.

International relations.

Genre:

Military history.

Physical Description:

vii, 164 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2022.

Summary:

War and Peace in Contemporary India examines the importance of institutions and the role played by international actors in crucial episodes of India's strategic history. The contributions trace India's tryst with war and peace from immediately before the foundation of the contemporary Indian state, to the last military conflict between India and Pakistan in 1999. The focus of the chapters included in this edited volume is as much on India as it is on Pakistan and China, its opponents in war. The chapters offer a fresh take on the creation of India as a regional military power, and her approach to War and Peace in the post-independence period. Importantly, it advances the broader work on Indian strategic history during the Cold War and after, an otherwise under-studied intellectual landscape. The book offers fresh insights based on archival work, as well as a closer conceptual reading of Indian, British and American decision making at times of war and peace in contemporary India. This book will be of great interest to scholars, researchers and students interested in strategic studies, diplomatic and military history, international diplomacy, as well as Indian history and politics. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Strategic Studies.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Building the sinews of power: India in the Second World War / Srinath Raghavan

2. The `Indian' staff college: Politics and practices of military institution-building in Twentieth century India / Vipul Dutta

3. The long shadow of colonial cartography: Britain and the Sino-lndian warof 1962 / Paul M. McGarr

4. `Just another border incident': The Rann of Kutch and the 1965 India-Pakistan War / Rudra Chaudhuri

5. Tilting at windmills: The flawed U.S. policy toward the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war / Christopher Clary

6. Provocation, war and restraint under the nuclear shadow: The Kargil conflict 1999 / John H. Gill.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: WAR AND PEACE IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA.

ISBN:

9781032140230

1032140232

9781032140278

1032140275

OCLC:

1257403361

Publisher Number:

99989674627