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The volumes of the Project of History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization commissioned by the Centre for Studies in Civilizations of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research follow multidisciplinary, multi-pronged approaches to discover the main aspects of India’s heritage and their relations to contemporary Indian society.
This volume is a unique study of India’s international relations, which traverses pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial perspectives. Its fourteen chapters deal with subjects as various as:
Trading interests in South Asia and how these interests finally established presences of varying importance in the eighteenth century, notably the British
Influence of domestic variables upon India’s international relations
How both the British Empire in India and the independent Indian state were formed within a context of religious identities and ethnic considerations
The paradigms of nature, culture and state-making on the one hand, and political ecology and cultural politics of natural resources on the other
Development of science and technology in India and the activities of the armed forces
The fostering of formal arrangements such as SAARC or SAFTA in South AsiaISBN--- 9788131708347
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