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The Politics of India’s Neighbourhood Policy in South Asia

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  • Pratip Chattopadhyay

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India’s policy orientation towards its immediate neighbouring countries in South Asia has been subjected to analyses mainly through the prism of foreign policy. In this article, neighbourhood is taken as a prism to categorise the phases of India’s policy since Independence towards these countries. In this effort, certain trends have been identified in Indian foreign policy that cut across chronology of Indian governments in office. The article critically interrogates the Indian policy package towards India’s immediate neighbours through interest based strategies that suit the changing external international political milieu. The Cold War years, the contradictory pulls of economic globalisation and regionalism and the drive towards global multipolarity affected the policy orientations of India towards its neighbours. The article concludes that the political logic of neighbourhood policy of India in South Asia is conditioned by adhocism.

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  • Pratip Chattopadhyay, 2011. "The Politics of India’s Neighbourhood Policy in South Asia," South Asian Survey, , vol. 18(1), pages 93-108, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:soasur:v:18:y:2011:i:1:p:93-108
    DOI: 10.1177/0971523112469526
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