Author Description

I. Identities. India in Asia: India's relations with southeast Asia and China, 1962-1991 / Manjeet S. Pardesi; Muslims in India: secularism and its international preconditions / William Gould; Linguistic movements, secessionism and state-building in India / Nicolas Blarel; Destiny's children: mediated selves and ambiguous identities in the Indian diaspora in the U.S. / Sunil Bhatia, Anjali Ram -- II. Ideas. Some strategies of Indian communists after 1947 / Vijay Singh; The political power of economic ideas? Foreign economic advisors and Indian planning in the 1950s and 1960s / David C. Engerman; Delhi-Metro-Polis: public transport, public opinion and national politics / Michael Mann; India's "Ville Radieuse": modernist town planning in Chandigarh / Boris Niclas-Tölle -- III. Resources. The first stages of India's nuclear policy ' Hans-Joachim Bieber; Indian globalisms: from population control to reproductive tourism / Mohan Rao; Employment and unemployment in a global economy: the Indian case / Dietmar Rothermund; The medialisation of post-colonial Indian society: national and transnational dynamics / Nadja-Christina Schneider -- IV. Power. Foreign policy and the success of India's democracy / Jennifer Bussell; On the periphery of a global conflict: India and the cold war, 1947-1991 / Robert J. McMahon; Divided nations: India and Germany / Amit Das Gupta; Between regional and global interests: the Indo-Soviet Treaty of 1971 / Srinath Raghavan