Priyanjali Malik's India's Nuclear Debate: Exceptionalism and the Bomb (War and PDF

By Priyanjali Malik

Making the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party’s nuclear checks in 1998 its place to begin, this e-book examines how opinion among India’s ‘attentive’ public shifted from assisting nuclear abstinence to accepting — or even feeling a necessity for — a extra assertive coverage, by means of analyzing the complexities of the controversy in India on nuclear coverage within the 1990s.


The research seeks to account for the shift in opinion via taking a look at the parallel techniques of the way nuclear coverage turned a major a part of the general public discourse in India, and what it got here to symbolise for the country’s intelligentsia in this decade. It argues that the strain on New Delhi within the early Nineties to fall in accordance with the non-proliferation regime, magnified through India’s declining international effect on the time, brought on the difficulty to stop being one in every of defence, making it a spotlight of nationalist satisfaction in its place. The country’s nuclear programme hence emerged as a try of its skill to resist exterior compulsions, making certain now not rather a lot the sanctity of its borders as a undeniable political thought of it — that of a latest, medical and, most significantly, ‘sovereign’ kingdom in a position to safeguard its regulations and set its goals.



 

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