War and Peace in Contemporary India

<p><em>War and Peace in Contemporary India</em> examines the importance of institutions and the role played by international actors in crucial episodes of India’s strategic history. The contributions trace India’s tryst with war and peace from immediately before the foundation of the contemporary Indian state to the last military conflict between India and Pakistan in 1999.</p><p>The focus of the chapters included in this edited volume is as much on India as it is on Pakistan and China its opponents in war. The chapters offer a fresh take on the creation of India as a regional military power and her approach to War and Peace in the post-independence period. Importantly it advances the broader work on Indian strategic history during the Cold War and after an otherwise under-studied intellectual landscape. The book offers fresh insights based on archival work as well as a closer conceptual reading of Indian British and American decision making at times of war and peace in contemporary India. </p><p>This book will be of great interest to scholars researchers and students interested in strategic studies diplomatic and military history international diplomacy as well as Indian history and politics. </p><p>The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the <i>Journal of Strategic Studies</i>.</p>