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India's Nuclear Debate - Exceptionalism and the Bomb (Paperback)
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India's Nuclear Debate - Exceptionalism and the Bomb (Paperback)
Series: War and International Politics in South Asia
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Making the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party's nuclear tests in
1998 its starting point, this book examines how opinion amongst
India's 'attentive' public shifted from supporting nuclear
abstinence to accepting - and even feeling a need for - a more
assertive policy, by examining the complexities of the debate in
India on nuclear policy in the 1990s. The study seeks to account
for the shift in opinion by looking at the parallel processes of
how nuclear policy became an important part of the public discourse
in India, and what it came to symbolise for the country's
intelligentsia during this decade. It argues that the pressure on
New Delhi in the early 1990s to fall in line with the
non-proliferation regime, magnified by India's declining global
influence at the time, caused the issue to cease being one of
defence, making it a focus of nationalist pride instead. The
country's nuclear programme thus emerged as a test of its ability
to withstand external compulsions, guaranteeing not so much the
sanctity of its borders as a certain political idea of it - that of
a modern, scientific and, most importantly, 'sovereign' state able
to defend its policies and set its goals.
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