354 Pages
by
Routledge India
354 Pages
by
Routledge India
354 Pages
by
Routledge India
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Making the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party’s nuclear tests in 1998 its starting point, this book examines how opinion amongst India’s ‘attentive’ public shifted from supporting nuclear abstinence to accepting — and even feeling a need for — a more assertive policy, by examining the complexities of the debate in India on nuclear policy in the 1990s.
The study seeks to account for the shift in... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Establishing India's Nuclear Rhetoric, 1947-1990 3. Creating a Nuclear Debate in the 1990s 4. Defining and Defending India, 1990-1996 5. Confronting the Nuclear Option: The CTBT and Sovereignty 6. Negotiating 'Nuclear India' after the CTBT 7. Defending Nuclear India 8.Conclusion: The Idea of Nuclear India
Biography
Priyanjali Malik is an independent researcher based in the UK.
"[A] fine, meticulously researched and well-written book... This is a scholarly work through and through but the crisis of 2001-2002, the subcontinent’s equivalent of the Cuban missile crisis in terms of brinks and abysses beyond, is written up so vividly it has a touch of a chiller-thriller about it." - Peter Hennessy, "ueen Mary, University of London, UK; International Affairs 87:2, 2011
