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.

Today, the Indian foreign policy is one of the sharpest, clearly, boldly and assertively driven by its own national interest, capable of withstanding big power pressure tactics.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

India’s foreign policy successes are evident from the rising manufacturing and jobs in the country. In 2021, a global semiconductor or chip shortage led to a rise in the cost of smartphones.

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

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 ...

Join the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) for an in-depth discussion on India’s foreign policy priorities for 2025. This conversation will explore the Modi government’s approach to managing its ...

“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.