Overview
Explores perceptions of India among its neighbours
Offers a rare standpoint, as most books on India’s South Asia policy only adopt an Indian perspective and do not consider what others think about India
Takes into account the people’s perception instead of focusing only on the views of the foreign-policy-making elites
Includes papers exploring India’s general policy in South Asia
Discusses how India manages extra-regional powers, its extended-neighbourhood policy, and how it uses soft power to spread its influence
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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India’s Perception of Its South Asian Neighbours
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Neighboring Countries’ Perception of India—‘Elder’ or ‘Big Brother’
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India in South Asia
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About this book
This book discusses the perceptions India has about its South Asian neighbours, and how these neighbours, in turn, perceive India. While analyzing these perceptions, contributors, who are eminent researchers in international relations, have linked the past with present. They have also examined the reasons for positive or negative opinions about the other, and actors involved in constructing such opinions.
In 1947, after its independence, India became part of a disturbed South Asia, with countries embroiled in problems like boundary disputes, identity related violence etc. India itself inherited some of those problems, and continues to walk the tight rope managing some of them. Traditionally, seventy years of India’s South Asia policy can roughly be categorized into three overlapping phases. The first one, Nehruvian phase, which viewed the region through a prism of an internationalist; the second one, ‘interventionist’ phase, tried to shape neighbours’ policies to suit India’s interests; and the third, accommodative phase, when policy makers attempted to accommodate the demands of the neighbours in India’s policy discourses. These are not ossified categories so one can find that policy adopted during one phase was also used in the other. Keeping the above in mind, the book discusses India’s role in managing and navigating through challenges of the presence of external, regional and international, powers; power rivalries in South Asia; India’s maritime policy and her relationship with extended neighbours; and India being visualized as a soft power by South Asian countries. It will certainly appeal to the academicians, students, journalists, policy makers and all those who are interested in South Asian politics.Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: India in South Asia
Book Subtitle: Challenges and Management
Editors: Amit Ranjan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2020-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-2019-4Published: 09 September 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-2020-0Published: 11 May 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXV, 289
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Asian Politics, International Relations, Political Leadership