Bharatiya Videsh Neeti: Indias Foreign Policy Hindi (Foreign Policy of India Shaping the Global Order as a Responsible Power)

In this book, former Foreign Secretary of India, Shri J.N. Dixit, powerfully and effectively paints a comprehensive picture of Indian foreign policy over a period of fifty years. The author considers 1947 as the beginning of Indian foreign policy. He describes how Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru laid the foundation for Indias foreign policy and how his successors subsequently made extensive and significant contributions to it. In narrating this important narrative, the author highlights various aspects of Indias foreign policy in chronological order. He also discusses the impact of these aspects on the national and international levels and includes landmark events that influenced Indian foreign policy priorities. Furthermore, the book analyzes the consequences and reactions to these events. For example, the Indo-Pak wars of 1947-48, 1965, and 1971; The United Nations suspicious attitude and the Kashmir issue; the 1962 Sino-Indian War; the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in 1979; the disintegration of the superpower Soviet Union; the Kashmir issue and Pakistans strategy of proxy war; the 1991 Gulf War; the Indo-Pak nuclear tests of May 1998. This book critically evaluates Indias relations with various countries around the world, especially the United States, the Soviet Union, China, and Pakistan, and provides a detailed discussion of international relations in the context of these events. This book, based on Indian foreign policy, is undoubtedly a masterpiece.