War and Peace in Contemporary India

Herausgeber: Chaudhuri, Rudra

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9781032140278
• ISBN-10: 1032140275
• Artikelnr.: 68710663

Autorenporträt

Rudra Chaudhuri is the Director of Carnegie India and Senior Lecturer at King's College London. He is also Visiting Professor at Ashoka University. Rudra works on contemporary security issues and increasingly on the future of technology diplomacy. Rudra is the author of Forged in Crisis: India and the United States since 1947 (2014). He is currently writing a book on the Global History of the Indian Emergency, 1975-1977.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: War and peace in contemporary India 1. Building the sinews of
power: India in the Second World War 2. The 'Indian' staff college:
Politics and practices of military institution-building in Twentieth
century India 3. The long shadow of colonial cartography: Britain and the
Sino-Indian war of 1962 4. 'Just another border incident': The Rann of
Kutch and the 1965 India-Pakistan War 5. Tilting at windmills: The flawed
U.S. policy toward the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war 6. Provocation, war and
restraint under the nuclear shadow: The Kargil conflict 1999