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India - From Regional to World Power (India in the Modern World)
India From Regional to World Power - India in the Modern World Author:Ashok Kapur Kapur provides an in-depth account of India's role in world politics at the beginning of the twenty-first century. He shows how the approach laid down by Nehru and followed by his successors (an approach that included nuclear self-restraint, the search for friendly relations with Pakistan and China, seeking the high ground in moral and diplomati... more »c spheres, and giving a lead to the non-aligned Third World) has been replaced. The new, more self-confident and assertive approach is based on India's growing economic strength and has a more strategic and pro-Western orientation. Meticulous in approach, this book discusses this change, shows how it has come about, and explores how India's role in world politics might develop going forward.« less