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The Routledge Handbook of Indian Defence Policy Themes, Structures and Doctrines

Edited By Harsh V. Pant Copyright 2020
    406 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge India

    406 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge India

    406 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge India
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    The Routledge Handbook of Indian Defence Policy brings together the most eminent scholarship in South Asia on India’s defence policy and contemporary military history. It maps India’s political and military profile in South Asia and the Indian Ocean region, and analyses its emergence as a global player.

    This edition of the handbook:

    • Canvasses over 60 years of Indian defence policy, its relation to India’s rising global economic profile, as well as foreign policy shifts;

    • Discusses several key debates that have shaped defence strategies through the years: military doctrine and policy, internal and external security challenges, terrorism and insurgencies;

    • Explores the origins of the modern armed forces in India; evolution of the army, navy and air forces; investments in professional military education, intelligence and net-centric warfare, reforms in paramilitary forces and the Indian police;

    • Comments on India’s contemporary strategic interests, focusing on the rise of China, nuclearisation of India and Pakistan’s security establishments, and developments in space security and missile defence.　

    Taking stock of India’s defence planning architecture over the past decade, this accessibly written handbook will be an indispensable resource for scholars and researchers of security and defence studies, international relations and political science, as well as for government thinktanks and policymakers.

    1.  Introduction

      2. Harsh V. Pant

      　

      Section 1: Soldier, State and Society in India

    2. The Indian Army: 1700s-1947

      3. Daniel Marston

    3. Indian Civil-Military Relations: An Overview

      4. Ayesha Ray

    4. Indian Society and the Soldier: Will the Twain Ever Meet?

      5. Kaushik Roy

      　

      Section 2: Military and Foreign Policy

    5. India and the Changing Nature of War: Gradual Incrementalism?

      6. Yogesh Joshi and Harsh V. Pant

    6. Military as an instrument of India’s foreign policy: An Expanding Footprint

      7. Sushant K. Singh

    7. India’s Erratic Defence Diplomacy: In Need of a Booster Dose

      8. Nitin A. Gokhale

    8. India’s Counter Terror Diplomacy: Strategy and Outcome

      9. Vinay Kaura

      　

      Section 3: The Services

    9. The Indian Army: Evolution in the Age of Nuclear Weapons and Terrorism

      10. Sunil Dasgupta

    10. Evolution of the Indian Navy: Towards a ‘Maritime Awakening’?

      11. Arun Prakash

    11. Indian Air Force: Persuasive in Peace, Effective in War

      12. Vinod Patney

    12. Evolution of Jointness in Indian Defence Forces: Stuck Between the Services

      13. Vinod Anand

      　

      Section 4: Doctrines

    13. Indian Army’s flagship doctrines: Need for Strategic Guidance

      14. Ali Ahmed

    14. The Indian Navy’s Doctrinal Evolution: Between Deterrence and Denial

      15. Manjeet S. Pardesi

    15. Doctrinal Evolution in the Indian Air Force: Towards a Strategic Future

      16. Arjun Subramaniam

      　

      Section 5: Defence Versus Development

    16. Changing Contours of Indian Defence Expenditure: Past as Prologue?

      17. Laxman Kumar Behera

    17. Defence Procurement in India: Challenges Abound

      18. Amit Cowshish

      　

      Section 6: Internal Security

    18. Islamist Terrorism in India: A Hybrid Threat

      19. Stephen Tankel

    19. Bullet Holes in Village Walls: India's Naxalite Challenge

      20. Ajai Sahni

    20. Insurgencies in India's Northeast: Rise, Fall and the Rise?

      21. Bibhu Prasad Routray

      　

      Section 7: Institutional Infrastructure

    21. The Evolution in India’s National Security Apparatus: Persisting Structural Deficiencies

      22. Frank O’ Donnell and Harsh V. Pant

    22. The Indian Intelligence System: Meeting the Challenges of a New World

      23. Vikram Sood

    23. The Indian Police: Need for Reinvention

      24. R.N. Ravi

    24. Para Military Forces and Central Armed Police Forces of India: Punching Below Their Capabilities

      25. Narender Kumar

    25. Professional Military Education in India: Towards a New Architecture

      26. Kapil Patil

      　

      Section 8: Nuclear Weapons and Space

    26. Nuclear Weapons in India’s Defence Policy: Achieving Conventional-Nuclear Synergy Verghese Koithara

      27.

    27. Space Security and Missile Defence: Towards Greater Pragmatism

      28. Rajeswari P. Rajagopalan

    28. India’s Cyber Defence Capabilities: Their Role in Net-Centric Warfare

    Kartik Bommakanti

    　

    Index

    Biography

    Harsh V. Pant is Professor of International Relations in the Defence Studies Department and the India Institute at King’s College London, UK. He is Director of Research and Head of Strategic Studies Programme at Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi, India. He is also an adjunct fellow with the Wadhwani Chair in US–India Policy Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC. His current research is focused on Asian security issues. His most recent books include China Ascendant: Its Rise and Implications (2019), India’s Evolving National Security Agenda: Modi and Beyond (2019), Indian Foreign Policy: The Modi Era (2019), New Directions in India’s Foreign Policy: Theory and Praxis (2018) and India’s Nuclear Policy (2018). Pant writes regularly for various media outlets, including The Japan Times, The Wall Street Journal, The National (UAE) and The Telegraph.

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