1st Edition

India: A Rising Middle Power

By John W. Mellor Copyright 1979
    390 Pages
    by Routledge

    390 Pages
    by Routledge

    This volume discusses topics important to understanding the basis of India's global role. They illuminate a spectrum of the components of India's modernizing growth: in domestic politics and international relations; economic growth and trade; and science and technology, including nuclear prospects.

    Foreword -- Preface -- India and the United States -- Political Evolution– Party Bureaucracy and Institutions -- Assessing the Political Impact of Foreign Assistance -- The Indian Economy: Objectives, Performance and Prospects -- A World Role: The Dialectics of Purpose and Power -- Regional Power in a Multipolar World -- Enlisting Post-1974 India to the Cause of Nonproliferation -- Science and Technology in India: Their Role in National Development -- India’s Trade Prospects and Potentials -- Reviving American Aid to India: Motivation, Scale, Uses, Constraints -- Revived Aid: A Possible Scenario -- Conclusion -- Conference Participants

    Biography

    Mellor, John W.