(Ebook) India's Foreign Relations, 1947-2007 by Jayanta Kumar Ray ISBN 9780415597425, 0415597420

(Ebook) India's Foreign Relations, 1947-2007 by Jayanta Kumar Ray ISBN 9780415597425, 0415597420

Beginning with an examination of the impact of Partition on India's foreign relations, this book focuses primarily on events between 1947 and 2007. It reviews the thoughts and actions of the main Indian architects of Partition---M.K. Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru---who, the author argues, in their opting for Partition, perpetuated and institutionalised communal (Hindu-Muslim) antagonism. India's foreign policy makers exercised little independence prior to 1991 because of the twin shackles of socialism and non-alignment. Post-1991, with the policies of economic liberalisation and globalisation and the consequent economic surge, India has been able to gain a high status in world affairs and evolve into a major power. India's relations with its neighbours and erstwhile as well as current world powers are analysed as separate chapters, as is its entry into the nuclear club. The book finally maps the extent to which India's foreign policy makers were grounded in reality and the effects of their decisions on its citizens.