The Reputational Imperative: Nehru's India in Territorial Conflict

by Mahesh Shankar

India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, left behind a legacy of both great achievements and surprising defeats. Most notably, he failed to resolve the Kashmir dispute with Pakistan and the territorial conflict with China. In the fifty years since Nehru's death, much ink has been spilled trying to understand the decisions behind these puzzling foreign policy missteps. Mahesh Shankar cuts through the surrounding debates about nationalism,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503605469
• ISBN13: 9781503605466
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"