India’s Rise to Power
in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
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Policing terrorism in India
Policing terrorism in India is fraught with difficulty. India is a large, heterogeneous democracy that is surrounded by countries experiencing their own intense problems with terrorism. The legal structure, in...
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Effects of a combined aerobic and resistance exercise program in breast cancer survivors: a randomized controlled trial
Few randomized controlled trials have examined the effects of combined aerobic and resistance training in breast cancer survivors soon after completing adjuvant therapy. Breast cancer survivors (N = 58) within 2 ...
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Personal accounts of exercise and quality of life from the perspective of breast cancer survivors
The purpose of the study was to examine breast cancer survivors’ perceptions of exercise and their quality of life (QoL).
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Instability and power
In the preceding chapters we described how India is gradually develo** the basis to emerge as a significant technological and economic power. These advances must mature, however, in the complex political and...
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Breaking the Vicious Circle
India and its South Asian neighbours are caught in a rising tide of political unrest. This tide frequently washes over international frontiers as a result of migration induced by economic or security factors, ...
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India and South Asia
South Asia has been aptly called a‘loveless hothouse where member states feed on each other’s fears’.1 While the Cold War was certainly a factor in creating such an atmosphere, as we noted in Part II, local facto...
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Performance and Prospects
India’s performance in defence production has been strong in certain areas such as space, missile production, some aspects of electronics and some areas of warship building. But overall it cannot be said to ha...
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The Southwest Asia Nexus
From the security perspective, Southwest Asia is one of the more important focal points for India. The Straits of Hormuz, the vital strategic choke point of the Persian Gulf that carries a billion tonnes of cr...
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India as an Indian Ocean Power
India’s naval build-up provoked considerable speculation both within the nation and in the wider region. Some non-Indian commentators believed that India was seeking a power projection capability rather than e...
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Indian Science and Technology and the Defence Industries
Economic exploitation was at the heart of India’s colonial experience. To counter colonial rule, the Indian nationalists therefore evolved a doctrine of economic nationalism known as swadeshi, which translated ro...
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The Economy and Defence
Given the rapidly escalating cost of modern weapons systems, the capacity of economies to generate sufficient surpluses to sustain comprehensive programs of military modernisation has become a critical determi...
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Politics, Instability and the South Asian Setting
The failure of the nations of South Asia to come to grips with the related problems of high population growth rates, poverty and political instability, and the displacement of populations to which this failure...
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India ‘ looks East’
India’s interest in Asian nations lying to its east has never been as strong as it has in those regions to its west. In part this attitude is cultural and historical: the great invasions of India all came from...
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Conclusion
It is unlikely that South Asia will emerge as a significantly more stable region for some years to come. The fractured and highly complex entities that comprise the region are required to undergo substantial p...
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Introduction
Indians have always known that their nation has the potential to be a significant power in a way in which citizens of nations with smaller populations do not. Nehru himself, for all that he emphasised the beni...
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Arming India
In the 1970s, Kennedy identified a number of industries in the civilian sector that he believed were key elements in sustaining an expansion in military capability. These were: iron and steel; non-ferrous meta...
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The Roots of Instability
Any examination of the causes of instability in India and South Asia is complicated by the fact that we are not dealing with a single large event such as a civil war, but rather with a slow accretion of violen...
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Consequences of Instability
The need to involve the security forces more closely in the maintenance of civil order and to raise additional police and paramilitary forces to counter militants has inevitably eroded the quality of democrati...
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South Asia and the End of the Cold War
The gridlock imposed by the Cold. War over South Asian relationships meant that an unprecedented number of lethal weapons were introduced into the region in the 1970s and 1980s.1 The Cold War also contributed dir...
