IR in India- Causes of Concern, Reasons to Celebrate and the Question of the Future

Abstract

While India is rapidly integrating with the global economic and political order, is recognized as an ‘emerging' power and is vying for a leadership role at the regional and global level, the state of the discipline of IR in India remains in ruins. Given the historically close nexus between power and the production of IR knowledge, why has IR scholarship in India not received international recognition? In this paper I look at India's past to explain its present so that informed choices can be made in the future.