Indian Politics & Policy: Vol 5, No. 3, Winter 2025

By Rahul Mukherji

With this issue, Indian Politics and Policy (IPP) has spontaneously transitioned from a bi-annual to a tri-annual publication in its second year of continuous publication since 2024. The first issue in 2025 was dedicated to the 2024 Indian Parliamentary elections. The current volume explores Indian foreign policy during the decade of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rule under the stewardship of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The three volumes in 2025 have covered a diversity of topics and engaged with significant scholarship.

Table of Contents
Editor's Introduction
Rahul Mukherji

Guest Editor's Introduction: Domestic Change and Foreign Policy in Contemporary India
Rohan Mukherjee

Research
Provincializing India's Foreign Policy: Unpacking the Local and Regional Origins of India's External Policies
Nicolas Blarel

Hindu Nationalism, Akhand Bharat, and Foreign Perceptions of India
Christopher Clary

Between Soft Power and Hard Ideology: Buddhism in the Imagery of the Indian State and Hindu Right
Pradyumna Jairam

Indian Foreign Policy and the Diaspora: Continuity or Change?
Shubha Kamala Prasad

Between Territory and Worldmaking: The Evolution of India's Double Conception of Sovereignty from Jawaharlal Nehru to Narendra Modi
Rapha lle Khan

India's Governing Trilemma and the Paradox of Economic Nationalism
Rohit Lamba

The Stack and the State: India's Digital Governance Model as Technopolitical Power
Anuradha Sajjanhar

Book Reviews
Development after Statism: Industrial Firms and the Political Economy of South Asia by Adnan Naseemullah
ASM Mostafizur Rahman

The Unfinished Quest: India's Search for Major Power Status from Nehru to Modi by T.V. Paul
Jamison C. Heinkel

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1637235488
• ISBN13: 9781637235485
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Westphalia Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 10.0"