Synopsis:
Most Indians, even those who consider themselves savvy about current affairs, suffer from a shocking ignorance of India’s civilisational history.
The malaise afflicts analysts, commentators and policymakers as well, and it has serious negative consequences for the prospects of the Indian nation-state.
This paper lays out the scale of the problem, the impediments towards establishing a genuine civilisational narrative, and the epiphanies that can follow from such a narrative.
The implications for India’s foreign policy, and indeed India’s civilisational destiny, are mind-boggling.
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Peninsular India as an unsinkable aircraft carrier. With a sixth of the world’s population and a commensurate share of the world economy, India’s strategic geographical location dictates that it be the pre-eminent Indian Ocean power and the flagship nation-state among the countries of the Indic civilisation
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