War and Peace in Contemporary India

ISBN-13: 9781032140230 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 164 str.

Rudra Chaudhuri

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.