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Builds arguments around war, security, and the interaction of international order with domestic dimensions, while showing why single disciplinary standpoints cannot capture strategic complexity. Develops an interpretive framework that tracks temporal change and strategic choice, linking conceptual debates to concrete historical trajectories within South Asia.","Interrogating International Relations  \nWar and International Politics in South Asia  \nSeries Editor: Srinath Raghavan  \nSenior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research, and Lecturer in Defence Studies, King’s College London, University of London.  \nThis Series seeks to foster original and rigorous scholarship on the dynamics of war and international politics in South Asia. Following Clausewitz, war is understood as both a political and a social phenomenon which manifests itself in a variety of forms ranging from total wars to armed insurrections. International politics is closely intertwined with it, for war not only plays an important role in the formation of an international order but also a threat to its continued existence. The Series will therefore focus on the international as well as domestic dimensions of war and security in South Asia. Comparative studies with other geographical areas are also of interest.  \nA fundamental premise of this Series is that we cannot do justice to the complexities of war by studying it from any single, privileged academic standpoint; the phenomenon is best explained in a multidisciplinary framework. The Series welcomes a wide array of approaches, paradigms and methodologies, and is interested in historical, theoretical, and policy-oriented scholarship. In addition to monographs, the Series will from time to time publish collections of essays.  \nAlso in this Series  \nFighting Like a Guerrilla: The Indian Army and Counterinsurgency Rajesh Rajagopalan  \nISBN 978-0-415-45684-5  \nIndian Foreign Policy in a Unipolar World Editor: Harsh V. Pant  \nISBN 978-0-415-48004-8  \nIndia’s Nuclear Debate: Exceptionalism and the Bomb Priyanjali Malik  \nISBN 978-0-415-56312-3  \nInterrogating International Relations  \nIndia’s Strategic Practice and the Return of History  \nJayashree Vivekanandan  \nLONDON NEW YORK NEW DELHI  \nFirst published 2011 in India by Routledge  \n912–915 Tolstoy House, 15–17 Tolstoy Marg, Connaught Place, New Delhi 110 001  \nSimultaneously published in the UK by Routledge  \n2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, OX14 4RN  \nRoutledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business  \n© 2011 Jayashree Vivekanandan  \nTypeset by  \nStar Compugraphics Private Limited D–156, Second Floor  \nSector 7, Noida 201 301  \nPrinted and bound in India by Baba Barkha Nath Printers  \nMIE-37, Bahadurgarh, Haryana 124507  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage and retrieval system without permission in writing from the publishers.  \nBritish Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data  \nA catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library  \nISBN: 978-0-415-59812-5  \nThis book is printed on ECF environment-friendly paper manufactured from unconventional and other raw materials sourced from sustainable and identified sources.  \nTo my parents for making it worth the while  \n‘I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to superimpose one part of the pattern upon another.  \nLet visitors trip.’  \nV. Nabokov, Speak, Memory  \nContents  \nList of Maps xi  \nList of Tables xiii  \nAcknowledgements xv  \n1. Temporal Journeys: Reorienting International Relations 1  \n2. India’s Strategic Practice: Theory Meets History 37  \n3. The Making of Mughal Grand Strategy: Material  \nand Ideational Influences 100  \n4. Strategies of Conciliation and Coercion:  \nTwo Case Studies 146  \n5. New Directions in International Relations 188  \nAppendix 214  \nBibliography 217  \nAbout the Author 241  \nIndex 242  \nList of Maps  \n3.1 Political Map of the Mughal Empire, 1601 105  \n3.2 The Expansion of the Mughal Empire, 1605–1707 108  \n3.3 The Annual Radius of Action  \nof the Mughal Imperial Camp 130  \n4.1 Political Map of Rajasthan, 1595 156  \n4.2 The Deccan, 1565 178  \nList of Tables  ","cbCaieQ28ywXJjNR","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaieQ28ywXJjNR","pdf",2757049,6,1,267,"English","en",105,"# Contents\n## List of Maps\n## List of Tables\n## Acknowledgements\n## 1. Temporal Journeys: Reorienting International Relations\n## 2. India’s Strategic Practice: Theory Meets History\n## 3. The Making of Mughal Grand Strategy: Material and Ideational Influences\n## 4. 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