Introduction: War and peace in contemporary India
Rudra Chaudhuri
1. Building the sinews of power: India in the Second World War
Srinath Raghavan
2. The ‘Indian’ staff college: Politics and practices of military institution-building in Twentieth century India
Vipul Dutta
3. The long shadow of colonial cartography: Britain and the Sino-Indian war of 1962
Paul M. McGarr
4. ‘Just another border incident’: The Rann of Kutch and the 1965 India–Pakistan War
Rudra Chaudhuri
5. Tilting at windmills: The flawed U.S. policy toward the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war
Christopher Clary
6. Provocation, war and restraint under the nuclear shadow: The Kargil conflict 1999
John H. Gill
Biography
Rudra Chaudhuri is the Director of Carnegie India and Senior Lecturer at King’s College London. He is also Visiting Professor at Ashoka University. Rudra works on contemporary security issues and increasingly on the future of technology diplomacy. Rudra is the author of Forged in Crisis: India and the United States since 1947 (2014). He is currently writing a book on the Global History of the Indian Emergency, 1975-1977.
