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Interrogating International Relations: India S Strategic Practice And The Return Of History

By Jayashree Vivekanandan (Author)

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The book interrogates the disciplinary biases and firewalls that inform mainstream International Relations and problematises several cultural representations that have come to typify the strategic histories of postcolonial societies such as India. It challenges these unqualified portrayals and underscores the centrality of context and contingency in any cultural explanation of state behaviour. The book argues for a historico-cultural understanding of power and critiques IRs tendency to usher in a selective return of history. Analysing two contrasting case studies from Mughal India, it assesses the grand strategy of accommodation pursued by Akbar. Its success and failure, the author argues, needs to be seen within the context of his policies to indigenise power and establish his legitimacy. The book helps to contextualise some of the critical transitions that occurred in international politics: from medieval empires to the modern state system, and from an indigenised, experiential understanding of power to its abstract manifestations in the colonial state. The book interrogates the disciplinary biases and firewalls that inform mainstream International Relations and problematises several cultural representations that have come to typify the strategic histories of postcolonial societies such as India. It challenges these unqualified portrayals and underscores the centrality of context and contingency in any cultural explanation of state behaviour. The book argues for a historico-cultural understanding of power and critiques IRs tendency to usher in a selective return of history. Analysing two contrasting case studies from Mughal India, it assesses the grand strategy of accommodation pursued by Akbar. Its success and failure, the author argues, needs to be seen within the context of his policies to indigenise power and establish his legitimacy. The book helps to contextualise some of the critical transitions that occurred in international politics: from medieval empires to the modern state system, and from an indigenised, experiential understanding of power to its abstract manifestations in the colonial state.

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  • : Interrogating International Relations: India S Strategic Practice And The Return Of History
  • : Jayashree Vivekanandan
  • : Routledge India
  • : 0415598125
  • : 9780415598125
  • : 273
  • : English

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