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Interrogating International Relations - India's Strategic Practice and the Return of History (Hardcover)
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Interrogating International Relations - India's Strategic Practice and the Return of History (Hardcover)
Series: War and International Politics in South Asia
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The book interrogates the disciplinary biases and firewalls that
inform mainstream international relations today, and problematises
the several tropes that have come to typify the strategic histories
of post-colonial societies such as India. Questioning a range of
long-held cultural representations on India, the book challenges
such portrayals and underscores the centrality of context and
contingency in any cultural explanation of state behaviour. It
argues for a historico-cultural understanding of power and
critiques IR's tendency to usher in a selective 'return of
history'. Taking two contrasting case studies from medieval Indian
history, the book assesses the success and failure of the grand
strategy pursued by the Mughal empire under Akbar. The study
emphasises his grand strategy of accommodation, defined by the
interplay of critical variables such as distance and the vast
military labour market. The book also looks at his conscious
attempt to indigenise power by projecting himself as the
personification of the ideal Hindu king. This case study helps to
contextualise the many critical transitions that occurred in
international relations: from medieval empires to the modern state
system, and from an indigenised, experiential understanding of
power to its absolute, abstract manifestations in the colonial
state.
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