Indian Foreign Policy and Cultural Values
“With major global and regional power balances shifting dramatically, understanding what drives Indian foreign policy has never been more important. In this ambitious and thought-provoking study, the author identifies pluralism, tolerance, non-violence an
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Indian Foreign Policy and Cultural Values “Departing from conventional studies of India’s foreign policy that assimilate it within normative visions of geopolitical calculation, Pethiyagoda excavates another set of concerns animating the country’s struggle to find its place in the international order. He shows that beneath the shifting strategies and short-term considerations of various Indian administrations, lie a number of long-term values and principles that sometimes resist India’s own strategic interests.” —Professor Faisal Devji, Professor of Indian History, University of Oxford and Author of The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence
Kadira Pethiyagoda
Indian Foreign Policy and Cultural Values
Kadira Pethiyagoda Melbourne, Australia
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I dedicate this book to ummi and uppi, who spent most of their lives making my life better, and my two athammis who always had faith in me.
Preface
My account of how this book came to be is in keeping with the premise of the project itself: that every choice has a long trail of causality stretching into the past. Just as the book sits at the intersection of world politics, culture and India, so too the inspiration to write it was accumulated from years of personal, professional and academic discovery across these areas. It was as a teenager that I discovered that the world was not boring and benign
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