Aspects of India's international relations 1700 to 2000; South Asia and the world V.10 pt.6
- Delhi Pearson Longman 2007
- 634p.
The volumes of the Project of History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization commissioned by the Centre for Studies in Civilizations of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research follow multidisciplinary, multi-pronged approaches to discover the main aspects of India's heritage and their relations to contemporary Indian society. This volume is a unique study of India's international relations, which traverses pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial perspectives. Its fourteen chapters deal with subjects as various as: Trading interests in South Asia and how these interests finally established presences of varying importance in the eighteenth century, notably the British Influence of domestic variables upon India's international relations How both the British Empire in India and the independent Indian state were formed within a context of religious identities and ethnic considerations The paradigms of nature, culture and state-making on the one hand, and political ecology and cultural politics of natural resources on the other Development of science and technology in India and the activities of the armed forces The fostering of formal arrangements such as SAARC or SAFTA in South Asia Table Of Contents: Competition and Conflict: Trade and Conquest Basudeb Chattopadhyay Colonial Dominance and Indigenous Response Hari Vasudevan and Anjan Sarkar Immigrant Communities Jayanta Kumar Ray and Kingshuk Chatterjee Ideological and Institutional Focus of Independent India Asok Kumar Mukhopadhyay Identity, Ideology and Conflict Partha S. Ghosh Borders Arun Kumar Banerji The Environmental Factors in the Indian Subcontinental History, c.1700?2000 Arun Bandopadhyay Multinationals Jayanta Kumar Ray and Kingshuk Chatterjee Science and Technology in India Jayanta Kumar Ray and Shantanu Chakrabarti Armies and Wars Jayanta Kumar Ray and Shantanu Chakrabarti Institutionalization of the Regional Space in South Asia Jayanta Kumar Ray and Shantanu Chakrabarti Infor