From chanakya to modi evolution of india’s foreign policy

Non Alignment 2.0
: 
A Foreign and
Strategic Policy for Indian in the Twenty-First Century
, New Delhi: Centre for Policy Research,
2012, 
http://www.cprindia.org/sites/default/files/Non-alignment%202.0_1.pdf
(accessed on 20
May 2016).
K. Satchidananda Murty, 
Indian Foreign Policy
, pp. 4–10.
Ibid., p. 13.
Nalini Kant Jha, ‘Cultural and Philosophical Roots of India’s Foreign Policy,’ at pp. 61–65.
Speech given by Nehru at Lucknow, 13 May 1963. Taken from K. Satchidananda Murty, 
Indian
Foreign Policy
, pp. 7–8.
For details on Chola expansion into Sri Lanka and South-East Asia please see George Spencer,
The Politics of Expansion: The Chola Conquest of Sri Lanka and Sri Vijaya
, Madras: New Era
Publications, 1983, pp. 5–6. Spencer explains Chola expeditions to Sri Lanka and the Sri Vijaya
Empire as ‘organized plundering activity’ arguing that ‘military campaigns of the Cholas and
their Indian rivals, especially those carried out over long distances, constituted a type of
compulsive behavior dictated by the urgent needs of statecraft, especially but not exclusively its

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economic needs: to reaffirm the hero-credentials of kings and princes; to provide potentially
restless vassals and their troops with profitable employment in distant places; and to secure
access to what S.N. Eisenstaedt has called “free flowing resources” such as jewels and other
valuables which were not firmly embedded in local communities, to place at the disposal of the
court. These political needs were, in turn, related to the continuing importance of redistributive
processes in the peasant economy. Hence they were intended to reaffirm the ruler’s identity as
supreme patron and benefactor in the realm: supporter of priests and poets, builder of religious
monuments, dispenser of titles and booty, and therefore – at a higher level of abstraction –
upholder of society and the cosmic order.’
For more details on the Mughals’ foreign policy decision making please see N.R. Farooqi,
‘Diplomacy and Diplomatic Procedure under the Mughals’, 
The Medieval History Journal
, Vol.
7, No. 1, 2004, p. 73.
Lawrence James, 
Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India
, New York: St Martin’s
Press, 1997, p. 640.
Philip Woodruff, 
The Men Who Ruled India: The Founders,
New York: St Martin’s Press, 1954,
pp. 15–16.
Rudyard Kipling, ‘The White Man’s Burden: The United States and the Philippine Islands’,
McClure’s Magazine
, February 1899.
Philip Woodruff, 
The Men Who Ruled India: The Guardians
, New York: St Martin’s Press,
1954, Epigram.
Speech given by Lord Curzon on 20 July 1904 on the presentation of the freedom of the city of
London, at the Guildhall. Taken from John Murray, 
Speeches on India: Delivered by Lord
Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy and Governor-general of India, While in England in July-August,
1904
, London, William Clowes and Sons Ltd, 1904.
Captain Mahan cited in H. Caldwell Lipsett, 
Lord Curzon in India: 1898-1903,
Berkeley:
University of California, 1903, pp. 223–28.
Olaf Caroe, 
Wells of Power: The Oilfields of South-Western Asia: A Regional and Global Study
,
New York: Da Capo Press, 1976, p. 64.
K.M. Panikkar, 
Asia and Western Dominance: A Survey of the Vasco da Gama Epoch of Asian
History 1498-1945
, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1953, pp. 111, 122.
Winston Churchill, ‘Dominion Status’,