The Making Of Modern Indian Diplomacy

Introduction -- Delusive utopia -- Irrepressible present -- Theorizing the uncontainable -- Inverted 'history' -- Death of diplomacy -- Diplomacy reborn -- Violence of ignorance -- Conclusions: In the shadow of power politics.

Diplomacy is conventionally understood as a European invention that gained international traction through the spread of colonialism. Consequently, scholars believe the moment of India's colonial liberation was in fact a false dawn, for the liberated, having internalized a European logic, mimicked Western practice. Postcolonial Indians are therefore anything but free. Abandoning this Eurocentric model, Deep K. Datta-Ray investigates what actually happens inside a foreign ministry, based on unique participant observation within India's bureaucracy. His findings reveal practices deeply confounding to Western diplomats and academics, because they defy the parameters of known models. To explain these practices, Datta-Ray develops a framework for understanding the ideas within which Indian diplomacy operates. He traces the transformation of diplomacy from Mughal times to the present, outlining the concepts underpinning Indian foreign policy, which disclose abiding continuities within Indian diplomacy from the days of the Mahabharata to nuclear policy. In doing so, he not only challenges the received wisdom on diplomacy but also reframes common conceptions of the Indian state.

This Is The First Major Attempt To Analyse The Whole Gamut Of India'S Foreign Policy Since Independence. Combining Different Methodological Apparaches, The Author Has Divded The Book In Three Different Part. This First Is Devoted To The Factors That Determine The Country'S Foreign Policy. The Second Part Is Devoted To The Four Goals That Are The Very Basis Of India'S Vis-A-Vis The Outside World. These Are Security, Modernisation, Regional Hegemony And International Role-Playing. The Book Defines Each Of These Goals, And Analyses Their Evolution From The Past. The Third Part Pertains To Ecision Making. (Also Read: Inside Diplomacy, Revised Paperback Edition By Ambassador Kishan S. Rana, Details Inside)

This textbook, the first comprehensive comparative study ever undertaken, surveys and compares the world’s ten largest diplomatic services: those of Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Russia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Chapters cover the distinctive histories and cultures of the services, their changing role in foreign policy making, and their preparations for the new challenges of the twenty-first century.

The book is a realistic and yet vivid survey of the country\'s mukltidimentional progress,cogently and lucidly written by the nation\'s well-known auther,diplomat and intellectual of over thirty deep into the complex intricacies of Indian diplomacy in contemporary times.It analyses in depth the working of the democratic apparatus and prodes the tangled web of communal thread and suggests ways and mean of restoring the harmony in different ethnic stratas of Indian society.The book is valuable for a researcher,educationist,intellectual and would serve as intelligent man\'s guiode to India\'s amazing progress in all field of national endeavour.