The greater game [[electronic resource] ] : India's race with destiny and China / / David Van Praagh

• Autore: Van Praagh David
• Pubblicazione: Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (468 p.)
• Disciplina: 954.05
• Soggetto topico: Political science
• Soggetto geografico: India History 1947-; India Politics and government 1947-; India Foreign relations China; China Foreign relations India
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references: p. [431]-434.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Illustrations -- A Tryst with More Than Destiny -- India Beyond Midnight -- “Terrorism Is Terrorism” -- Caste and Crass -- Dung and Decency -- The Nehrus -- Winning at Any Cost -- The Soul of a Nation -- Nearly Going Communist -- Presuming Too Much -- Back to the Past -- The Only Option -- A Historic Turning Point -- Finally the Future Beckons -- Violence, Alignment, and the Bomb -- Debacle in the High Himalayas -- Talking Peace and Waging War -- Between Dragon and Serpent -- An Unlikely Expression of Hope -- Vale of Death -- Testing and Fighting -- No Mahatma to Wait For -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: David Van Praagh argues that Hindu nationalists, the country's new paramount political force, are creating a new kind of coalition politics that discourages religious clashes. Led by the Bharatiya Janata Party they are also bringing about needed economic liberalization. Since coming to power in 1998, the Hindu nationalists led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Krishna Advani have brought India out of the nuclear closet with a series of tests confirming its status as a nuclear power. After the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 on America and three months later on the Indian Parliament, the United States and India have quietly become "allies in the cause of democracy," with an eye to containing not only terrorists but China. Van Praagh, a journalist with many years of experience in India and Asia as a correspondent for the Globe and Mail and other Canadian and U.S. newspapers, combines first-hand coverage of events, historical narrative, and timely analysis in this clearly written and provocative book. The Greater Game details India's political evolution and that country's emergence as not only the preeminent power in the Subcontinent but also a major world power.
• Titolo autorizzato: The greater game
• ISBN: 1-282-86134-4; 9786612861345; 0-7735-7130-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910783797903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II