INDIA AND ASIAN GEOPOLITICS
The Past, Present by Shivshankar Menon
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
T.C.A. Raghavan
The first part of the book, roughly covering the period from decolonisation to globalization, is more historical in its treatment and broadly follows a chronological framework. The second part looks at contemporary Asia and inevitably highlights China and its interface with others, in particular India. The focus is principally about India interacting, influencing, and being influenced by Asia; this a ‘broader’ Asia— both a vast continental landmass and an even larger maritime universe. It is, moreover, geography in which outside powers—Europe, the US, Russia—are key players integral to its geopolitics. In Menon’s telling, this Asia always was connected to wider geographies and is now more connected than ever before. India’s own story is inseparable from this ‘broader Asia’ and is ‘most successful’ only when most connected to it.
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