India, China and the Himalayan Buffers - Mitra, Debamitra
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India's reflection of its foreign policy with the immediate neighbourhood of the Himalayan states in the perception of Nehru and post-Nehru regimes. With the underlying concern to exert regional leadership, India looks at the states of Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim in its north, through different conceptual lenses as all of these involve China related complications for India. Having consolidated its hold over Tibet, India apprehends China's role in eroding India's special position in the Himalayas. Although India has incorporated Sikkim, Nepal has already moved out of India's clutches. Could Bhutan…mehr

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India's reflection of its foreign policy with the immediate neighbourhood of the Himalayan states in the perception of Nehru and post-Nehru regimes. With the underlying concern to exert regional leadership, India looks at the states of Nepal, Bhutan and Sikkim in its north, through different conceptual lenses as all of these involve China related complications for India. Having consolidated its hold over Tibet, India apprehends China's role in eroding India's special position in the Himalayas. Although India has incorporated Sikkim, Nepal has already moved out of India's clutches. Could Bhutan be the next for India to finally lose its privileged position in much of the Himalayan sphere, which also includes India's problematic neighbour, Pakistan, and Afganistan, in which competition with Pakistan and stances towards Islamist Jihadist overspill southward (as Afganistan faces southwards down from the Hindu Kush into Indian subcontinent) concerns India from its immediate to extendedneighbourhood (as Afganistan is the gateway to and from Central Asia).
Autorenporträt
Prof. Debamitra Mitra, an MPhil and PhD in International Relations and History, from Jadavpur University and Calcutta University respectively, is currently the Principal, Institute of Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Development under the UGC recognized Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology Kolkata.