How India plays a role of peacemaker?
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When India played peacemaker
This account of India’s foreign policy under Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi is an accomplished body of research into a period, usually studied primarily for India’s Non Aligned Movement. The author suggests that Nehru’s larger Asian, more global, view for India has therefore gone unnoticed
BY Ambassador Kishan S. Rana
Huge effort goes into any major doctoral dissertation, and its subsequent publication as a book makes it a formidable achievement. This is particularly true of Zorawar Daulet Singh’s book. A published author and reputed commentator on international affairs, he spares the reader the typical first chapter of a doctoral dissertation, which usually examines the research question from a highly theoretical perspective. Instead, he has skilfully incorporated theory into a powerful, readable introduction, which provides this work’s leitmotif. The book is an intellectual tour de force, impressive on many counts
Zorawar’s central point is: India’s foreign policy under first Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru in the 1950s was that of a peacemaker (emphasis author’s). “…there is a dearth of serious work on Nehru’s regional policy in the 1950s…interpretations of Nehru are either ‘hagiographic’ or polemical critiques…” He says, “Nehru perceived traditional realism as ‘the tactical small stuff’ and felt his role conception for India ‘was more strategic’.” In the 1970s, under Indira Gandhi, India became a security seeker (emphasis author’s), with “a network conception of order and security”. That produced a change in the way regional policy behaviour was viewed by Indira Gandhi.
Zorawar argues that among foreign policy analysts, there has been an excessive focus on India’s policy of Non Alignment, and insufficient attention, especially in relation to the 1950s, to look beyond the India-China relationship. Many have tended to retrofit into the narrative of actions in that first decade the 1962 India-China confrontation, under-playing Nehru’s larger Asian – and global – conception. This is a key message in the first half of the book, while the second half looks at Indira Gandhi’s policies.
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