Review: Asia: Ethnicity, Security, and Separatism in India
| Published date | 01 September 1998 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070209805300326 |
| Date | 01 September 1998 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
Reviews
to policy-makers'
decisions
about
the
newly
created
federal
state.
For
foreign
policy
and
to
the history
of
Nehru, joining
an alliance
would
Asia-Pacific
regionalism.
The
arti-
have
been
akin to
telling
India's
eth-
cles
survey
not
only
American
writ-
nic
and
religious
minorities to
look
ing,
but
also
historiographical
outside the country's
borders
for
help
trends
in
China,
Japan,
and
Korea.
in
their
causes.
Chadda
is
critical
of
Robert
McMahon
notes
that
the the
way
some
Sikhs,
Kashmiris, and
study
of
United
States-Vietnamese
Tamils
have
used
history
to
promote
relations
in
America
is
dominated
their
causes,
but
her
fundamental
by
the
American
experience
in
the argument
is
that
India
has
been
nei-
Vietnam
War.
Glen
Anthony
May
ther
a
hegemonic
nor
a
defensive
has
written
an
informed
essay
on
power in
south
Asia.
Rather,
Indian
United
States-Philippine
relations,
foreign
policy
behaviour
is
explained
but
the inclusion
of
the Philippines
by
attempts
to
achieve
'relational
in
a book
on
American-east
Asian
control.'
relations
begs
a
larger
question
In
short, Indian
politicians
have
about
the
rest
of
Southeast
Asia,
consistently
responded to
perceived
south
Asia,
and
Australasia.
Future
security threats in
the
region
so
as
to
collaborations
would
be well
served
prevent
them
from having
an
adverse
by
including
historians
able
to
dis-
impact
on
ethnonational
conflict
cuss
these regions
as
well.
within
India
itself
In
this
astute
observation
there
is
an
unspoken
ETHNICITY,
SECURITY,
AND
implication
that
progress
toward
SEPARATISM
IN
INDIA
resolving
tensions
in
the
region
may
Maya
Chadda
depend
on whether other
states
New
York:
Columbia
University
Press,
accommodate their
foreign
policies
1997,
xvii,
286
pp,
US$49.50
cloth,
to
India's
nation-building
goals.
For
US$18.50
paper
progress
to
occur,
all
south
Asian
states
have
to
be
prepared
to
make
In this
informative
and
noteworthy
important
compromises
in their
book,
Chadda
argues
that
India's
treatment
of
'national' security
multi-ethnic
and
religious
make-up
issues.
had
a
great
impact
on
the
foreign
policy
decisions
of
successive
Indian
leaders.
She
traces
Nehru's
support
The
Promise
ofAlliance:
NATO
and
for
a
neutralist
policy
in
the
cold
war
the
Political Imagination,
by
Ian
to
his
desire
to create
a
domestic
Q.R.
Thomas,
reviewed
in the
political
space
which
would
help
spring
issue
is published
by
control
ethnonationalist
demands
on
Rowman
&
Littlefield.
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INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
Summer
1998
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