About the Book: Indian Foreign Policy: An EmpiricalAnalysis
India is showing a new image of itself to the world and worldisrecognizing that
today, India is indeed a country to bereckonedwith. 60 years on, Jawaharlal
Nehru's dream of Indiabeingrecognized as a global power has never been closer.
Indiaalwaysaspired global recognition, however for almost half a centuryIndiawas
seen as overpopulated, poor and irrelevant. Althoughthehegemon in the South
Asian region and a leader within theNonAligned Movement this hardly mattered on
the wider worldstage.India's foreign policy in the first 45 years
afterindependence wasvery flexible and reactive in nature.