Discipline Specific Elective (DSE) Courses for Sem – IV

DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC ELECTIVE COURSE – 2a: Gandhi and the Contemporary World

CREDIT DISTRIBUTION, ELIGIBILITY AND PRE-REQUISITES OF THE

COURSE

Course title & Credits Credit distribution of the Eligibility Pre-

Code course criteria requisite
Lecture Tutorial Practical/ of the
Practice course
(if any)
Gandhi and 4 3 1 - NA NA
the
Contemporary
World
DSE-2a

Learning Objectives
The Course has been designed to acquaint student with the core foundations of Gandhi’s thoughts,
methods and his position on key important issues of national and global concern. These issues
range from the social, political, cultural to religious and economic questions which engaged the
intellectual minds in his times and even today. As a celebrated champion of non-violent struggle
Gandhi is anonym for fight against injustice, discrimination and unfair treatments.

Learning outcomes
After reading this module the student will be able to answer:
• What are the core principles of Gandhian thought on which he scrutinizes all actions?
• How Gandhi applied those principles in shaping his positions on social, political,
economic and religious questions?
• The students will be able to answer how Gandhi presented the critique of the Western
Civilization.
• The students will be able to know the position of Gandhi on key questions of
contemporary debates in India like Religious conversion, protection of cow, language
issue and Hinduism.
• The student will be able to know how Gandhi’s use of the term Swadeshi does not just
limit to economic aspects but all gametes of national life.

SYLLABUS OF DSE-2a
UNIT – I (12 Hours)
Truth and Non-violence

UNIT – II (8 Hours)
Gandhian Thought: Theory and Action
a. Theory of Satyagraha
b. Satyagraha in Action: Peasant Satyagraha, Temple Entry and Critique of Caste,
Social Harmony and Communal Unity

UNIT – III (9 Hours)

Gandhi on Modern Civilization and Ethics of Development

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 a. Conception of Modern Civilization and Alternative Modernity
b. Critique of Development

UNIT – IV (8 Hours)
Gandhi and the Idea of Political
a. Swaraj
b. Swadeshi

UNIT – V (8 Hours)
Gandhi’s views on
a. Hinduism
b. Religious Conversion
c. Cow Protection
d. Language Questions

Essential/recommended readings
Unit I
Bilgrami, Akeel (2003) Gandhi, The Philosopher, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 38 (39),
pp- (4159-416).
Veeravalli, Anuradha. (2014). Gandhi in political theory: Truth, law and experiment Ashgate,
Farnham, UK and Burlington, USA.
Godrej Farah (2006). Nonviolence and Gandhi's Truth: A Method for Moral and Political
Arbitration. The Review of Politics 68 pp- 287-317. USA. University of Notre Dame.
Allen, Douglas ((2007). ‘Mahatma Gandhi on Violence and Peace Education’. Philosophy,
East and West 57 (3):290-310.
Unit 2
Diwakar, R. R. (1969). Saga of Satyagraha. New Delhi: Gandhi Peace Foundation
Nayar, Sushila (1951,1989). Mahatma Gandhi, Volume IV, Satyagraha at Work. Ahmedabad:
Navajivan Publishing House.
Pyarelal & Sushila Nayar (1965), 1986 Gandhi - Birth of Satyagraha: From Petitioning to
Passive Resistance, Vol.3. Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House.
P. Rao (2009) ‘Gandhi, Untouchability and the Postcolonial Predicament: A Note’. Social
Scientist.Vol.37(1/2). Pp.64-70.
B. Parekh,(1999)‘DiscourseonUnsociability’,inColonialism,TraditionandReform: An Analysis
of Gandhi's Political Discourse, New Delhi: Sage Publication
Unit 3
B. Parekh (1997) ‘The Critique of Modernity’, in Gandhi: A Brief Insight, Delhi: Sterling
Publishing Company, pp. 63-74.
K. Ishii (2001) ‘The Socio-economic Thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi: As an Origin of Alternative’
Unit 4
D. Dalton (1996) ‘Swaraj: Gandhi’s Idea of Freedom’ in Mahatma Gandhi: Selected Political
Writings, USA: Hackett Publishing, pp. 95-148.
Ragi, Sangit K. (2022), RSS and Gandhi: The Idea of India, New Delhi: Sage [On Swadeshi:
pp. 221-250]
R. Ramashray (1984) ‘Liberty Versus Liberation’, in Self and Society: A Study in Gandhian
Thought, New Delhi: Sage Publication.

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Kumar, Sanjeev (ed) (2020). ‘Understanding Gandhi: Why Gandhi Matters Today ‘in Gandhi
and the Contemporary World. Oxon & New York: Routledge.PP-1-23.
Unit 5
Gandhi, Mahatma. (1994). What is Hinduism. National Book Trust, New Delhi,
Ragi, Sangit K. (2022), RSS and Gandhi: The Idea of India, New Delhi: Sage [On Hinduism:
pp. 42-74; On Religious Conversion: pp. 75-114; On Cow Protection: 193-220; On Language
Questions: pp. 160-192]
Mehta, Sandhya. (2002). Gandhiji On Religious Conversion Selected and Compiled, Ist
Edition. Mumbai. Mani Bhavan Gandhi Sangrahalaya.
Gandhi (M.K.) . (1955), My Religion. Ahmedabad: Navajivan Trust.
Bilgrami, Akeel (2011), Gandhi’s Religion and Its relation to his Politics. In: Brown, Judith M.
and Parel, Anthony (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi. Cambridge University Press,
93–116
S Radhakrishnan (2007): “Gandhi’s Religion and Politics,” in S Radhakrishnan (ed), Mahatma
Gandhi: Essays and Reflections, Mumbai: Jaico Publication House.
D. Hardiman (2003) ‘Fighting Religious Hatreds’, in Gandhi in His Time and Ours. Delhi: Oxford
University Press.

Note: Examination scheme and mode shall be as prescribed by the

Examination Branch, University of Delhi, from time to time.

DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC ELECTIVE COURSE – 2b: India's National Security: Major

Challenges and Strategic Thinking

CREDIT DISTRIBUTION, ELIGIBILITY AND PRE-REQUISITES OF THE

COURSE

Course title Credits Credit distribution of the Eligibility Pre-

& Code course criteria requisite of
Lecture Tutorial Practical/ the course
Practice (if any)
India's 4 3 1 - NA NA
National
Security:
Major
Challenges
and
Strategic
Thinking
DSE-2b

Learning Objectives
This course aims to link India’s internal and external security challenges with its long term
strategic thinking, approach and responses to the same. It introduces the historical
dimensions of India’s security challenges and the policy responses to students before
equipping them with tools to conceptually analysing these. The course then discusses the
intellectual foundations of India’s strategic thinking drawn from both classical texts and past

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practices. Students will also learn about the major contemporary debates on India’s
strategic culture. The course will engage students in understanding both internal and
external dimensions of India’s major security challenges. Some of the key external
challenges, it focuses on, include India’s securitized borders, maritime security threats,
nuclearization, and terrorism. In the internal realm, issues pertaining to Jammu & Kashmir,
the North-east, Naxalism, along with cyber and information warfare have been discussed.
The final component of the course introduces the students to an array of India’s strategic
responses ranging from non-alignment, forging strategic partnerships and military
responses to pursuing multilateral strategies in the contemporary world.

Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, students would acquire the ability to:
• Understand the ways in which, the security threats to India have evolved historically
and how have these been met.
• Appreciate the intellectual and historical foundations of Indian strategic thinking.
• Develop a nuanced understanding of India’s strategic culture.
• Learn about India’s internal and external security threats in its multifarious dimensions.
• Understand how has India evolved a whole array of strategic responses such as
nonalignment, forging strategic partnerships and bilateral as well as multilateral
partnerships to address diverse challenges it faces.

SYLLABUS OF DSE-2b

UNIT – I (7 Hours)
Understanding India's National Security
1.1 India’s Security Policy: A Historical Perspective
1.2 Contemporary Dimensions of India’s National Security Framework
1.3 Conceptualizing India's National Security

UNIT – II (9 Hours)
Intellectual Foundations of India’s Strategic Thinking
2.1 Textual Traditions: Ramayana & Mahabharata
2.2 Kautilya
2.3 Non-Textual Conceptualizations: Swaraj, Martial Culture

UNIT – III (7 Hours)

India's strategic culture
3.1 Evolution and conceptualization
3.2 Contemporary Trends

UNIT – IV (13 Hours)

India’s National Security Challenges
4.1 External Challenges
4.1.1 India’s Neighbourhood (Cross-border terrorism, securitised borders,
water sharing conflicts and nuclearization
4.1.2 Maritime Security
4.2 Internal Challenges
4.2.1 Maoism/Naxalist Challenge
4.2.2 Separatist Movements (J&K and the Northeast)
4.2.3 Cyber Warfare

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UNIT – V (9 Hours)
India’s Strategic Responses
5.1 Non-Alignment
5.2 Strategic Partnerships
5.3 Military Responses
5.4 Multilateral Alliances

Essential/recommended readings
Unit wise reading list

Unit 1: Understanding India's National Security

1.1 India’s Security Policy: A Historical Perspective
Essential Readings
Raju G C Thomas, “The Strategic Environment and Defence Policies” in Indian Security Policy
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986) pp. 10-49
Sanjay Chaturvedi, “Indian Geopolitics: ‘Nation-State’ and the Colonial Legacy” in Kanti Bajpai
and Siddharth Mallavarapu (eds.) International Relations in India: Theorising the Region and
Nation (Orient Longman, 2005) pp. 238-281
Additional Readings
David Malone, “History: A Vital Foundation of India’s International Relations” in Does the
Elephant Dance: Contemporary Indian Foreign Policy (Oxford University Press, 2011) pp. 19-
46
Shyam Saran, “Sources of India’s World View” in How India Sees the World: Kautilya to the
21st Century (Juggernaut, 2018) pp. 9-24
Shivshankar Menon, “The Stage and Inheritance” in India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past,
Present (The Brookings Institutions, 2021) pp. 11-36
Sumit Ganguly, “India’s National Securty” in David M. Malone, C. Raja Mohan, and Srinath
Raghavan (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Indian Foreign Policy (Oxford University Press,
2015) pp. 145-159
L.P. Singh, “Learning the Lessons of History” in Brahma Chellaney (eds.) Securing India’s
Future in the New Millennium (Orient Longman, 1999) pp. 1-22
Harsh Pant and Kartik Bommakanti, “India’s national security: challenges and dilemmas”,
International Affairs, 95 (4) (2019):835-857.
1.2 Contemporary Dimensions of India’s National Security Framework
Essential Readings
Kanti Bajpai "India: Modified Structuralism" in Muthaiah Alagappa (eds.) Asian Security
Practice (Stanford University Press, 1998) pp. 157-197
Additional Readings
Arvind Gupta, “National Security Environment” and “Non-traditional Security Issues in
National Security” in How India Manages its National Security (Penguin Random House,
2018).
Rohan Mukherjee & David M. Malone, “Indian Foreign policy and Contemporary Security
Challenges”, International Affairs, Volume 87 (1), pp. 87–104 (2011)

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 1.3 Conceptualizing India's National Security
Essential Readings
Anshuman Behera and Areeba Ahsanat Moazzam, “India’s National Security Discourse: A
Conceptual Introduction”, in Anshuman Behera & Sitakanta Mishra (eds.), Varying
Dimensions of India’s National Security (Springer 2022) pp. 3-18
P. S. Raghavan, “National Security Determinants of Foreign Policy”, in Arvind Gupta and
Anil Wadhwa (Ed.), India’s Foreign Policy: Surviving in a Turbulent World, New Delhi: (Sage
Publications, 2020) pp. 34-44
Additional Readings
Arvind Gupta, “How Good is India’s National Security System?” in How India Manages its
National Security (Penguin Random House, 2018)
David M. Malone, “India’s Contemporary Security Challenges: More Internal than External?”
in Does the Elephant Dance? Contemporary Indian Foreign Policy (Oxford University Press,
2011) pp. 47-74
Unit 2: Intellectual Foundations of India’s Strategic Thinking
2.1 Textual Traditions: Ramayana and Mahabharata
Essential Readings
Swarna Rajagopalan, “Grand Strategic Thought in the Ramayana and Mahabharata” in Kanti
Bajpai, Saira Basit and V. Krishnappa (eds) India’s Grand Strategy: History, Theory, Cases
(New Delhi: Rutledge, 2014) pp. 31-62
Additional Readings
Amrita Narlikar and Aruna Narlikar, “India’s Negotiation Strategy: The Heroism of Haed
Bargaining?” in Bargaining with a Rising India: Lessons from the Mahabharata (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2014) pp. 24-71.
Sharad Patil, “Myth and Reality of Ramayana and Mahabharata”, Social Scientist, Vol.4, No.
8 (1976): 68-72.
2.2 Kautilya
Essential Readings
Subrata K. Mitra, “Kautilya and the Strategic Culture of India” in Subrata K. Mitra and Michael
Liebig (eds.) Kautilya’s Arthashastra: An Intellectual Portrait (Nomos, 2016) pp. 288-316
Additional Readings
Rashed Uz Zaman, “Kautilya: The Indian Strategic Thinker and Indian Strategic Culture”,
Comparative Strategy, Volume 25, No. 3 (2006) 231-247
George Modelski, “Kautilya: Foreign Policy and International System in the Ancient Hindu
World”, The American Political Science Review, Vol-58, No-3 (Sept., 1964). pp. 549-560.
2.3 Non-Textual Conceptualizations: Swaraj, Martial Culture
Essential Readings
Arpita Anand, ‘A ‘Regional’ Intervention in the Debate on India’s Strategic Culture: Maratha
Statecraft in Agyapatra,’ Journal of Defence Studies, 15:3, July-September 2021. Available
at: https://idsa.in/jds/a-regional-intervention-in-the-debate-on-indias-strategic-culture-aanant
Jayashree Vivekanandan, “Strategy, Legitimacy and the Imperium: Framing the Mughal
Strategic Discourse,” in Kanti Bajpai, Saira Basit and V. Krishnappa (eds.) India’s Grand
Strategy: History, Theory, Cases (New Delhi: Rutledge, 2014) pp. 63-85.
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3.1. Evolution and conceptualization
Essential Readings
Kanti Bajpai and Amitabh Mattoo “Introduction” in Kanti Bajpai, Amitabh Mattoo and George
Tanham (eds.) Securing India: Strategic Thought and Practice (New Delhi: Manohar, 1996)
pp. 15-27
Jaswant Singh, “Strategic Culture” in Defending India (New Delhi: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999)
pp. 1-60
3.2 Contemporary Trends
Essential Readings
Michael Liebig, ‘Interrogating ‘Hyphenated Cultures’: India’s Strategic Culture and Intelligence
Culture’, Journal of Defence Studies, 15:3, July-September 2021. Available at:
https://idsa.in/jds/interrogating-hyphenated-cultures-mliebig
Amrita Narlikar, “Peculiar Chauvinism or Strategic Calculation? Explaining the Negotiating
Strategy of a Rising India”, in International Affairs, Vol. 82 (1) (2006): 59-76
Additional Readings
George K. Tanham, “Indian Strategic Thought: An Interpretive Essay” in Kanti Bajpai, Amitabh
Mattoo and George Tanham (eds.) Securing India: Strategic Thought and Practice (New Delhi:
Manohar, 1996) pp. 28-111
George K. Tanham, “Indian Strategy in Flux?” in Kanti Bajpai, Amitabh Mattoo and George
Tanham (eds.) Securing India: Strategic Thought and Practice (New Delhi: Manohar, 1996)
pp. 112-139
Unit 4: India’s National Security Challenges
4.1 External Challenges:
4.1.1 India’s Neighborhood
S. Muni, ‘Problem Areas in India’s Neighbourhood Policy’, South Asian Survey, Vol. 10 (2)
(2003): 185-196.
i. Cross-Border terrorism:
Essential Readings
Sanjeev Kumar HM, Chp 3 in The India-Pakistan Sub-conventional War: Democracy and
Peace in South Asia (New Delhi: Sage, 2022), pp. 162-192.
Additional Readings
K. Santhanam, “Sources of Terror: India” in South Asia Post-9/11: Searching for stability
(Observer Research Foundation, 2003), pp. 31-35
S.D. Muni “Introduction” in Responding to Terrorism in South Asia (Manohar, 2006) pp. 11-29
ii. Securitised Borders
Essential Readings
Shyam Saran, “The Pakistan Puzzle” in How India Sees the World: Kautilya to the 21st
Century (Juggernaut, 2018) pp. 77-106
Alka Acharya, "China" in Kanti Bajpai and Harsh Pant (eds.) India's Foreign Policy (Oxford
University Press, 2013) pp. 356-369
Additional Readings
Shyam Saran, “The India-China Border Dispute and After” in How India Sees the World:
Kautilya to the 21st Century (Juggernaut, 2018) pp. 123-149

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Shiv Shankar Menon, “India and China” in India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present
(The Brookings Institution, 2021) pp. 317-339
Tanvi Madan, “China in Three Avatars in Kanti Bajpai, Saira Basit and V. Krishnappa (eds.)
India’s Grand Strategy: History, Theory, Cases (New Delhi: Rutledge, 2014) pp. 308-359
Bharat Karnad, "An Elephant with a Small Footprint: The Realist Roots of India’s Strategic
Thought and Policies" in Kanti Bajpai, Saira Basit and V. Krishnappa (eds.) India’s Grand
Strategy: History, Theory, Cases (New Delhi: Rutledge, 2014) pp. 200-233
iii. Water Sharing
Essential Readings
Brahma Chellaney, “Water: The latest India-Pak Battle Line” in Water: Asia’s New
Battleground (Georgetown University Press, 2011) pp. 286-296.
Medha Bisht, “From the edges of borders: reflections on water diplomacy in South Asia” Water
Policy 21 (2019): 1123–1138
Jonathan Holslag, “Assessing the Sino-Indian Water Dispute,” Journal of International Affairs,
64:2, Spring/Summer 2011, pp. 19-35.
Additional Readings
K. Warikoo, “Perspectives of Indus Waters treaty” in Ranabir Samaddar and Helmut Reifeld
(eds.) Peace as Process: Reconciliation and conflict Resolution in South Asia (Konrad
Adenauer Foundation, 2001) pp. 281-298
Brahma Chellaney, “Nepal and Bhutan as Subregional Energy Hub” in Water: Asia’s New
Battleground (Georgetown University Press, 2011) pp. 281-286
Brahma Chellaney, “Exploiting the Riparian Advantage: A key test case” in Water: Asia’s New
Battleground (Georgetown University Press, 2011) pp. 141-197 (Includes Bangladesh)
iv. Nuclearization
Essential Readings
Ashley J. Tellis, India’s Emerging Nuclear Doctrine: Exemplifying the Lessons of Nuclear
revolution, NBR Analysis, 12:2, May 2001, pp. 1-16; 103-110.
Sundaram, K. and MV Ramana. "India and the policy of no first use of nuclear weapons."
Journal of Peace and Nuclear Disarmament 1, no. 1 (2018). Taylor & Francis: 152-68.
Additional Readings
Bharat Karnad, “New Attractions of the Bomb: The Nuclearized Twenty-First Century World”
in India's Nuclear Policy (Praeger Security International, 2008) pp. 5-34
Rajesh Basrur, “India and China: A managed nuclear rivalry?” Washington Quarterly, 42, no.
3 (2019). Taylor & Francis: 151-70.
Harsh V. Pant and Yogesh Joshi, Indian Nuclear Policy, New Delhi, Oxford University Press,
2018.
Vipin Narang, “Introduction” in Seeking the Bomb: Strategies of Nuclear Proliferation
(Princeton University Press, 2022) pp. 1-14
4.1.2 Maritime Security
Essential Readings
S. Jaishankar, Chapter 8, “The Pacific Indian: A Re-Emerging Maritime Outlook,” in The India
Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World (New Delhi: Harper Collins, 2020), pp. 179-200.

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Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, “India’s maritime strategy”, in Anit Mukherjee and C. Raja
Mohan (eds.) India’s Naval Strategy and Asian Security (London: Routledge, 2016) pp. 13-
36.
Additional Readings
Rahul Roy Chaudhary “India’s Maritime Security” India International Centre Quarterly, Vol. 26,
no. 1 (1999): 129-139
Vijay Sakhuja, “Maritime security order in Asia: a perspective from India” in Joachim Krause
and Sebastian Bruns (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Naval Strategy and Security (London:
Routledge, 2016) pp. 315-327
4.2 Internal Challenges
4.2.1 Naxalism/ Maoism
Essential Readings
P.V Ramana, “State Response to the Maoist Challenge: An Overview,” in V.R. Raghavan
(ed.), The Naxal Threat: Causes, State Responses and Consequences (New Delhi: Vij Books,
2011), pp. 71-94.
Additional Readings
E. N. Rammohan, “Rise of Naxalism, its implications for National Security and the way
Forward,” in V.R. Raghavan (ed.), The Naxal Threat: Causes, State Responses and
Consequences (Mew Delhi: Vij Books, 2011), pp. 95-112.
Ramachandra Guha, “Adivasis, Naxalites and Indian Democracy” Economic and Political
Weekly 42(32) (2007): 3305-3312
4.2.2 Separatist Movements (J&K/ Northeast)
Kashmir
Essential Readings
Navnita C. Behera, “India’s Political Gambit” in Demystifying Kashmir (Brookings, 2006) pp.
30-72
Additional Readings
Rekha Chowdhry, “India’s responses to the Kashmir Insurgency: A Holistic Perspective”, in
Mooed Yusuf (eds.) Insurgency and counter-Insurgency in India: Through a Peacebuilding
Lens (United States Institutes of Peace, 2014) pp. 45-76.
V.G. Patankar, “Insurgency, Proxy War and Insurgency in Kashmir,” in Sumit Ganguly and
David P. Fidler (eds.), India and Counterinsurgency: Lessons Learned (New Delhi: Routledge,
2009), pp, 65-78.
Northeast
Essential Readings
Sanjib Baruah, “Regionalism and secessionism” in Niraja Gopal Jayal and Pratap Bhanu
Mehta (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Politics in India (Oxford University Press, 2011) pp.
181-191
Additional Readings
Walter Ledweig, "Insights from the Northeast: Counterinsurgency in Nagaland and Mizoram”,
in Sumit Ganguly and David P. Fidler (eds.) India and Counterinsurgency: Lessons Learned
(USA, Canada: Routledge, 2009) pp. 45-62
4.2.3 Cyber Security and Information Warfare
Essential Readings

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Whagre Prateek & Shibani Mehta, “India’s National Cybersecurity Policy Must Acknowledge
Modern Realities” (Diplomat, 2019). https://thediplomat.com/2019/12/indias-national-
cybersecurity-policy-must-acknowledge-modern-realities/
Martin C. Libicki, “The Convergence of Information Warfare”. Strategic Studies Quarterly.
11(1), 49-65. https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/Portals/10/SSQ/documents/Volume-11_Issue-
1/Libicki.pdf
Additional Readings
S, Datta, Cybersecurity, Internet governance and India’s foreign policy: Historical
antecedents (Internet Democracy Project 2016)
https://internetdemocracy.in/reports/cybersecurity-ig-ifp-saikat-datta.
Mukerji, Amb (Retd) A. International Cooperation on Cyber Space: India’s role. (Ministry of
External Affairs, 2018). https://www.mea.gov.in/distinguished-lectures-detail.htm?743
Unit 5: India’s Strategic Responses
5.1 Non-Alignment
Essential Readings
Rajen Harshe, “India’s Non-Alignment: An Attempt at Conceptual Reconstruction,” Economic
and Political Weekly, 25:7-8, February 17-24, 1990, pp. 399-405.
Khilnani, S., Rajiv Kumar and Pratap Bhanu Mehta (eds.) (2013). Nonalignment 2.0: A Foreign
& Strategic Policy for India in the 21st Century. Penguin.
Additional Readings
P. Srivastava, “From Non-Alignment to Strategic Partnerships” Non-Alignment Movement:
Extending Frontiers (New Delhi: Kanishka Publishers, 2001) pp. 177-182.
C Rajamohan, “Beyond Non-Alignment” in Crossing the Rubicon: The Shaping of India's new
Foreign Policy (Viking, 2003) pp. 29-56
Pant, H.V., & Super, J.M. (2015). India’s ‘non-alignment’ conundrum: a twentieth- century
policy in a changing world. International Affairs, 91(4), 747-764.
5.2 Strategic Partnerships
Essential Readings
Rajiv Sikri, “India’s Strategic Choices” in Challenge & Strategy in Rethinking India’s Foreign
Policy (Sage Publications, 2009) pp. 277-290
Ashley J. Tellis, “US-India Relations: The Struggle for an Enduring Partnership” in David M.
Malone, C. Raja Mohan, and Srinath Raghavan (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Indian Foreign
Policy (Oxford University Press, 2015) pp. 481-494
Additional Readings
Teresita C. Schaffer & Howard B. Schaffer, “Indian Strategic Visions” India at the Global High
Table: The Quest for Regional Primacy & Strategic Autonomy (Harper Collins India, 2016) pp.
60-81
C. Rajamohan, Chapter 6 on “Embracing America,” in Modi’s World: Expanding India’s Sphere
of Influence, New Delhi: Harper Collins, 2015.
5.3 Military Responses
Essential Readings
Dasgupta, Sunil and Stephen P. Cohen. "Is India ending its strategic restraint doctrine?",
Washington Quarterly 34, no. 2 (2011). Taylor & Francis: 163-77.
Tarapore, Arzan. The Army in Indian Military Strategy: Rethink Doctrine or Risk Irrelevance.
New Delhi: Carnegie India Working Paper, 2020: 1-22.

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Additional Readings
Rajpal Budania, “India’s Threat Perception and Policy Response” in India’s National Security
Dilemmas: Pakistan Factor (Indus Publishing Company, 2001) pp. 216-269
Singh, Sushant K. “Military as an instrument of India's foreign policy: An expanding
footprint”. In The Routledge Handbook of Indian Defence Policy (second edition) edited by
Harsh V. Pant. New Delhi: Routledge, 2020.
Sumit Ganguly, “India’s Defence Policy” in Niraja Gopal Jayal & Pratap Bhanu Mehta The
Oxford Companion to Politics in India (Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 542-554.
5.4 Multilateral Alliances:
Essential Readings
David Malone “The evolution of Indian Multilateralism” in Does the Elephant Dance:
Contemporary Indian Foreign Policy (Oxford University Press, 2011) pp. 249-273
Saran, Shyam (2013), India and Multilateralism: A Practitioner’s Perspective in Waheguru Pal
Singh Sidhu, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Bruce D. Jones (eds.), Shaping the Emerging World: India
and the Multilateral Order, Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, pp. 43-56
Additional Readings
Teresita C. Schaffer & Howard B. Schaffer, “Multilateral Negotiations,” India at the Global High
Table: The Quest for Regional Primacy & Strategic Autonomy (Harper Collins India, 2016) pp.
213-247.
Sanjaya Baru, “The Economic Imperative for India’ s Multilateralism” in Waheguru Pal Singh
Sidhu, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Bruce D. Jones (eds.) Shaping the Emerging World: India and
the Multilateral Order (Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2013) pp. 75-92
Navroz K. Dubash and Lavanya Rajamani, “Multilateral Diplomacy on Climate Change,” in in
David M. Malone, C. Raja Mohan, and Srinath Raghavan (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of
Indian Foreign Policy (Oxford University Press, 2015) pp. 663-680.
Rajesh Rajagopalan, “Multilateralism in India’s Nuclear Policy: A Questionable Default
Option,” in David M. Malone, C. Raja Mohan, and Srinath Raghavan (eds.) The Oxford
Handbook of Indian Foreign Policy (Oxford University Press, 2015) pp. 650-662.

Note: Examination scheme and mode shall be as prescribed by the

Examination Branch, University of Delhi, from time to time.

Common Pool of GE courses for Sem-IV is at the end of

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