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Deep K. Datta-Ray is the only outsider to have embedded in India's Ministry of External Affairs. His book on Indian diplomacy overturns much of the accepted wisdom about it being simply a derivative of European colonial models, in the process shedding new light on the nature of the Indian state. The author argues on the basis of observed practices, and informal interactions and interviews with ministers and diplomats, that the core of Indian diplomatic practice is to be found in the national epic, the Mahabharata, whose influence he traces from pre-Mughal times to the present.
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Transliteration; Glossary; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Delusive Utopia; Modern diplomacy; Reflexivity and civilization; Civilized genealogy; Conclusions; 2. Irrepressible Present; Managing the MEA; The structure-of-structures; The diplomatic present; Status anxiety; 'How on earth did you get out?'; The jugar of negotiating the cosmos; Mobility's aim: progress; Unspectacular suffering; 'Nothing makes sense in this country'; Conclusions; 3. Theorizing the Uncontainable; Today's kit: the Mahabharata; Managing the text
Application: the Mahabharata's dharmaThe practice of diplomacy in the Mahabharata; Conclusions; 4. Inverted 'History'; The rationale for diplomacy in the Indo-Mughal Empire; The coming of authentic, modern, European diplomacy; Conclusions; 5. Death of Diplomacy; Diplomacy-as-battle; Battle practices; The victory of battle-diplomacy; Conclusions; 6. Diplomacy Reborn; Gandhi's engagement with dharma; Gandhi's art-of-politics; Nehru: The principled Gandhian; The diplomatic apparatus; Satyagraha in practice: Pakistan and China; Conclusions; 7. Violence of Ignorance; Analytical violence
Enclosing the atom: satyagrahaThe status of status; The friability of art; Conclusions; Conclusions: In the Shadow of Power Politics; Intellectualizing the Ramarajya; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.