From chanakya to modi evolution of india’s foreign policy

One Life is not Enough: An Autobiography
, New Delhi: Rupa
Publications, 2014.
Jayantanuja Bandyopadhyaya, 
The Making of India’s Foreign Policy
, pp. 217–20.
Author’s interview with a former foreign secretary, March 2013.
Author’s interview with a veteran Indian journalist, March 2013.
Kanchan Gupta, ‘The truth behind Kandahar’, 
The Pioneer
, 24 December 2008.
A.S. Dulat, 
Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years
, New Delhi: HarperCollins, 2015, pp. 38–39.
Javed Ansari, ‘ IC 814 hijacking still haunts Jaswant Singh’,
India Today
, 31 October 2013;
Jaswant Singh, 
India at Risk: Mistakes, Misconceptions and Misadventures of Security Policy
,
New Delhi: Rupa Publications, 2013, pp. 205–18.
Sanjaya Baru, 
The Accidental Prime Minister: The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh
,
New Delhi: Penguin, 2014, p. 74.
H.V. Kamath, speech on 10 August 1949 at the Constituent Assembly, 
Constituent Assembly
Debates of India, Official Report,
Vol. IX (30th July to 18th September 1949),
http://164.100.47.132/LssNew/cadebatefiles/vol9.html
 (accessed on 19 August 2014).
Krishan Mathur and P.M. Kamath, 
Conduct of India’s Foreign Policy,
New Delhi: South Asian
Publishers, 1996, pp. 71–81.
For 
details 
about 
the 
Consultative 
Committee 
on 
External 
Affairs,
http://www.mpa.nic.in/MPA/ccms_rpt.aspx
 (accessed on 10 February 2017).
For 
details 
about 
the 
Standing 
Committee 
on 
External 
Affairs,
http://www.prsindia.org/uploads/media/Constitution%20119/SCR-
%20119th%20(A)%20Bill.pdf
 (accessed on 31 January 2015).
Letter from Sardar Patel to Nehru, 27 April 1948, on the issue of the recruitment of services,
Durga Das (ed.), 
Sardar Patel’s Correspondence, 1945–50,
Vol. IV, Ahmedabad: Navjivan
Publishing House, 1972, pp. 324–25.
Ibid.
Y.D. Gundevia, 
Outside the Archives,
pp. 23, 188.
Ibid., pp. 23–24.
Figures were taken from Annual Report 2014-2015 of the Ministry of External Affairs, p. 209,
http://mea.gov.in/Uploads/PublicationDocs/25009_External_Affairs_2014-2015__English_.pdf
(accessed on 15 June 2016).
Sudha Ramachandran, ‘India’s surging aid to Maldvies points to its strategic location’, 
Asia
Times
, April 2015, 
http://www.atimes.com/article/indias-surging-aid-to-maldives–points-to-its-
strategic-location/
 (accessed on 20 December 2015).
Indrani Bagchi, ‘New Developments in MEA under Modi: Indian envoys get a strategic
overview of Modi government’s world vision’, 
The Times of India
, 23 February 2015.
Jayantanuja Bandyopadhyaya, 
The Making of India’s Foreign Policy,
pp. 211–12.
‘Indian Foreign Service’, Ministry of External Affairs Website, 
http://www.mea.gov.in/indian-
foreign-service.htm
 (accessed on 30 March 2015).
Elizabeth Roche, ‘Ministry of External Affairs to hire from private sector,’ 
The Mint
, 18 June
2015.
Indrani Bagchi, ‘Crisis point: Not enough diplomats in India’, 
The Times of India,
30 April
2007, 
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2007-04-30/india/27878506_1_indian-

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