WHEN it started its life as an independent country in 1947, India chose a foreign policy that would keep it ‘non-aligned’ in the polarised environment created by the US-USSR Cold War.

A survey on the foreign policy attitudes of over 200,000 Indian households in 2005 and 2006, for example, found that 82 percent of members of India’s lowest socioeconomic group did not know what they ...

In the article, The Economist said that India despite PM Modi’s supporters tom-tomming his government’s muscular foreign policy, the current BJP government’s approach and objectives abroad ...

India’s prime minister Narendra Modi speaks during a joint press conference with U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington, D.C., June 22, 2023.

Subcontinental Drift: Domestic Politics and India’s Foreign Policy, Rajesh Basrur, Georgetown University Press, 268 pp., $44.95, January 2023.

At least three recent books have aimed to look at a ‘grand strategy’ for Indian foreign policy in the 21st century, harking in some measure to ancient strategic wisdom.

The Parliament of India plays a critical role in drafting and influencing the country’s foreign policy. That is what makes KV Prasad’s new book, Indian Parliament: Shaping Foreign Policy, an ...

The new foreign direct investment (FDI) policy raises limits on foreign investment, potentially spurring renewed interest in the South Asian space community. Private and public actors in India ...

'Nehru’s First Recruits: The Diplomats Who Built Independent India’s Foreign Policy': By Kallol Bhattacherjee, HarperCollins India, 368 pages, ₹ 699.

“India is today an aligned state—but based on issues,” the then foreign secretary, Vijay Gokhale, said in 2019. Its accommodation with America, therefore, “is not ideological.