Rajesh Basrur is Professor of International Relations and Coordinator of the South Asia Programme at RSIS at NTU, Singapore.

Kate Sullivan de Estrada is Lecturer in Modern Indian Studies at the University of Oxford, UK.

Preface

1. Strategies of Status Seeking in World Politics: The Case of India




2. Status without Power in the Nehru Era (1947-1964)




3. Incipient Power, Limited Status in the Post-Nehru Era (1964-1991)




4. Status and Power in the Post-Cold War Era (1991-2016)




5. Conclusion

Bibliography

This Routledge Focus charts the ways in which India's international strategies of status-seeking have succeeded, failed and evolved, from Independence up to the present day.