‘India’s Wars’; charting military history from the margins
The landscape of modern Indian military history has long been an opaque, sparse and challenging terrain for the curious reader. For decades, it has been dominated by two unappealing extremes: the dense, dry, and often sanitised official histories commissioned by the government, and the chest-thumping, frequently jingoistic popular accounts that prioritise patriotic fervour over critical […]
The Hindu military ethos and strategic thought in Post-Colonial India: Part 4
‘Hindu’ India and Nuclear Politics On 25 April 1947, Gandhi declared: ‘I hold that he who invented the atom bomb has committed the gravest sin in the world of science. The only weapon that can save the world is non-violence.’97 On August 1948, the Atomic Energy Commission of India was set up, with Homi Bhabha, […]
