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Indian Foreign Policy

The rise of India as a major power has generated new interest in understanding the drivers of its foreign policy. This book argues that focusing on the role that ideas and discourse play in producing India's state identity and shaping its foreign policy behaviour results in a more complete account of state action.

The book looks at Indian foreign policy from 1947 to 2004, and examines major moments of crisis such as the IndiaChina war in 1962 and the conducting of nuclear tests in 1998, as well as the approach to international affairs of significant leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru. The analysis sheds new light on these key events and figures in India's history, and develops a strong analytical narrative around its foreign policy behaviour based on an understanding of India's postcolonial identity. It argues that a prominent facet of India's identity is that of a civilizational-state that brings to international affairs a tradition of morality and ethical conduct derived from its civilizational heritage and the legacy of its anti-colonial struggle.

This book provides an understanding of the motivations that will help to shape India's behaviour as a rising power by illuminating the conditions of possibility in which foreign policy is made.

Priya Chacko is Lecturer in International Politics in the School of History and Politics at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Her research interests include the normative basis of Indian foreign policy, non-Western thought in International Relations, and India's engagement with Africa and global governance.

Interventions

Edited by

Jenny Edkins

Aberystwyth University

and
Nick Vaughan-Williams

University of Warwick

As Michel Foucault has famously stated, knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting. In this spirit The Edkins VaughanWilliams Interventions series solicits cutting edge, critical works that challenge mainstream understandings in international relations. It is the best place to contribute post disciplinary works that think rather than merely recognize and affirm the world recycled in IR's traditional geopolitical imaginary

(Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawai'i at Mnoa, USA)

The series aims to advance understanding of the key areas in which scholars working within broad critical post-structural and post-colonial traditions have chosen to make their interventions, and to present innovative analyses of important topics.

Titles in the series engage with critical thinkers in philosophy, sociology, politics and other disciplines and provide situated historical, empirical and textual studies in international politics.

Critical Theorists and International Relations

Edited by Jenny Edkins and Nick Vaughan-Williams

Ethics as Foreign Policy

Britain, the EU and the other
Dan Bulley

Universality, Ethics and International Relations

A grammatical reading
Vronique Pin-Fat

The Time of the City

Politics, philosophy, and genre
Michael J. Shapiro

Governing Sustainable Development

Partnership, protest and power at the world summit
Carl Death

Insuring Security

Biopolitics, security and risk
Luis Lobo-Guerrero

Foucault and International Relations

New critical engagements
Edited by Nicholas J. Kiersey and Doug Stokes

International Relations and Non-Western Thought

Imperialism, colonialism and investigations of global modernity
Edited by Robbie Shilliam

Autobiographical International Relations

I, IR
Edited by Naeem Inayatullah

War and Rape

Law, memory and justice
Nicola Henry

Madness in International Relations

Psychology, security and the global governance of mental health
Alison Howell

Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt

Geographies of the nomos
Edited by Stephen Legg

Politics of Urbanism

Seeing like a city
Warren Magnusson

Beyond Biopolitics

Theory, violence and horror in world politics
Franois Debrix and Alexander D. Barder

The Politics of Speed

Capitalism, the state and war in an accelerating world
Simon Glezos

Politics and the Art of Commemoration

Memorials to struggle in Latin America and Spain
Katherine Hite

Indian Foreign Policy

The politics of postcolonial identity from 1947 to 2004
Priya Chacko

Politics of the Event

Time, movement, becoming
Tom Lundborg

Theorizing Post-Conflict Reconciliation

Agonism, restitution and repair
Edited by Alexander Keller Hirsch

Indian Foreign Policy

The politics of postcolonial identity from
1947 to 2004

Priya Chacko

First published 2012
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor and Francis Group, an informa business

2012 Priya Chacko

The right of Priya Chacko to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Chacko, Priya.

Indian foreign policy: the politics of postcolonial identity from 19472004 / Priya Chacko.

p. cm. (Interventions)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. IndiaForeign relations19471984. 2. IndiaForeign relations1984
3. National characteristics, East Indian. 4. PostcolonialismIndia.
I. Title.
JZ1737.C47 2011
327.54dc23

2011025002

ISBN: 978-0-415-66568-1 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-14773-3 (ebk)

Typeset in Times New Roman
by Wearset Ltd, Boldon, Tyne and Wear

Contents

Acknowledgements

This book has its origins in a doctoral thesis written at the University of Adelaide, it was revised while I took up positions at universities in New Zealand and South Africa and finally, and fittingly, it was completed when I returned to Adelaide. I'd like to thank friends, colleagues and the administrative staff at the School of History and Politics at Adelaide, in particular, for providing a supportive and conducive research environment. My supervisors Anthony Burke, Juanita Elias and especially Peter Mayer offered unstinting encouragement and guidance and my fellow postgraduate students kept me in good spirits right to the end of the long haul.

A travelling fellowship and research abroad scholarship from the University of Adelaide funded my fieldwork in India and the Alexander family generously gave me a place to stay in Delhi. I'd like to thank Sanjay Chaturvedi for facilitating my attachment to the Centre for the Study of Geopolitics at Punjab University and a number of scholars at the School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University for useful conversations and for providing me with contacts for interviews. Many thanks to the editorial team at Routledge for their professionalism and enthusiasm for this project. Without Robbie Shilliam's urging I might never have sought to publish this book at all.

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