Mahajan Foreign Policy of Colonial India

1900-1947
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-18693-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 228 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in South Asian History

A country’s foreign policy is designed to promote self-interest strategies, to safeguard its national interests, and to achieve its goals within the international milieu. It is shaped by major assumptions, spoken and unspoken, of its policy makers as well as by civil society formed over the years.

This book analyses the foreign policy of the British colonial government in India which came to be known as ‘the Raj’. Focusing on the relations of the Government of India with states along the territorial rim of the Indian Empire and along the routes that connected Britain with India, the author examines the foreign policy of the Raj during the last fifty years of British rule in India. At the time, India was a resource-rich and huge colony of an island state, Great Britain. Examining the official history of the Raj and based on extensive archival research, the book argues that the foreign policy was designed to serve the interests of the colonial power.

A useful work, this book fills in a void in studies on Indian foreign policy and expertly documents the foreign policy of the Raj. It will be of interest to academics in the fields of modern history, political science, international relations and colonial history in India and South Asia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mahajan, Sneh

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Determinants of the Foreign Policy of the Raj

2. Managing Relations with the States on the Northern Frontier

3. Handling the Northwest Frontier

4. The Eastern Frontier

5. The Raj and the Indian Ocean Region

6. Concluding remarks

Über Autor(innen)

Sneh Mahajan is professor emeritus at the Department of History, Indraprastha College for Women, India.