Soviet Relations With India And Pakistan

This monograph seeks to highlight India s relations with the USSR from the day of independence that is 15 August 1947 to the consummation of second liberation in the form of the emergence of Bangladesh as an independent state in December 1971. This happened to be the most crucial period in the contemporary history of India in that it coincided with the formative period in our foreign policy during which India had to face many a crisis the process of management of which determined the course of our relationship with the major powers. All important issues have been treated in detail in the body of the essay with particular reference to those controversies that caused much ripples on the otherwise placid waters of Indian diplomacy. The section dealing with the Bangladesh crisis covers a wide range of international factors that helped India to achieve this signal success.

This book deserves to be read carefully by scholars and laymen of foreign policy dealing with the former Soviet Union, Russia and South Asia, and particularly by the political leaders of India and Pakistan. The book is a multi-dimensional analysis of (a) Soviet-American rivalry; (b) Soviet determination to expand in the direction of South Asia and the Gulf; (c) the regional dynamics of the Middle East most especially Iran, Afghanistan and China, the major power in Asia.

Introduction Indo-Russian Relations : An Overview Russian-Indian Relations : A View into the Third Millennium Indo-Russian Strategic Cooperation Indo-Russian Strategic Partnership for Enhanced Cooperation The Phases in Indo-Russian Relations Future of India-Russia Defence Cooperation India-Russia Economic Relations : Challenges and Opportunities Trade Relations between India and Russia Economic and Trade Relations between India and Russia Indo-Russian Nuclear Cooperation Indo-Russian Cooperation in Marine Science and Technology Russia and South Asia : Growing Indo-Russian Relations Indian Economic Interests in Central Asia in Post-Soviet Era Central Asia : Russian and Indian Interests Indo-Russian Relations: Prospects and Problems in the Twenty First Century Indo-Russian Relations : Historical Perspective Impact of Developments in Russia on Indian National Movement Political Pluralism in Russia - A Tentative Assessment Russia^s Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Period Putin, Plutocracy and Foreign Policy Russian Foreign Policy A Wind of Change is Blowing : A Report on Russia Today Economic Transformation in Russia Putin^s Russia : Unquiet Flows the Don Chechen Imbroglio : Prospect of Russian Disintegration ? Russia, China and India : An Overview Russia and China : The Emerging Strategic Partnership New Starting-Point, New Challenges-Sino-Russian Relations in the New Century.

The Soviet Union and India (1989) examines the costs and benefits to the Soviet Union of its substantial economic and military involvement with India, and assesses how India fits into Soviet policies towards southwest Asia and China. It analyses the effects on Soviet-Indian relations of the invasion of Afghanistan and of the military buildup in Pakistan; how changing domestic and global priorities in Moscow and New Delhi will affect the relationship; and what the role of the West should be.