1st Edition

Rising India Status and Power

148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

While India’s prospects as a rising power and its material position in the international system have received significant attention, little scholarly work exists on India’s status in contemporary world politics. This Routledge Focus book charts the ways in which India’s international strategies of status seeking have evolved from Independence up to the present day. The authors focus on the... Read more

Preface







  1. Strategies of Status Seeking in World Politics: The Case of India








  2. Status without Power in the Nehru Era (1947-1964)








  3. Incipient Power, Limited Status in the Post-Nehru Era (1964-1991)








  4. Status and Power in the Post-Cold War Era (1991-2016)








  5. Conclusion






Bibliography

Biography

Rajesh Basrur is Professor of International Relations and Coordinator of the South Asia Programme at RSIS at NTU, Singapore.



Kate Sullivan de Estrada is Lecturer in Modern Indian Studies at the University of Oxford, UK.