India's ad hoc arsenal : direction or drift in defence policy?

Author(s)

• Smith, Chris
• Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

Bibliographic Information

India's ad hoc arsenal : direction or drift in defence policy?

Chris Smith

Oxford University Press, 1994

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-258) and index

Published in association with SIPRI

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Chris Smith explores the evolution of Indian defence policy since 1947. He looks carefully at the domestic dynamics of Indian defence policy. This includes an in-depth analysis of the period 1947-62, which is often ignored by Indian defence analysts, and the performance of the defence industrial base. He concludes that India's defence policy is designed more as one aspect of the quest for great power status than as an attempt to aquire security at an affordable price.

Table of Contents

• Part 1 Introduction. Part 2 India - regional security from Aryan times to the present: from the Aryans to the British - the legacy of invasion
• independence, partition and the war of 1947
• statehood and insecurity
• Indian security perceptions and international politics
• territorial integrity and the threat from the north-west
• Pakistan - limitations and capabilities
• India's national security problems and Sri Lanka
• the Himalayan kingdoms and Bangladesh
• the China question
• the Indian Ocean
• domestic, regional and international - India and the seamless web of security. Part 3 Defence policy and practice - 1947-62: introduction
• defence before independence
• independence and the formation of defence policy
• the blackett report
• the Indian army
• the Indian air force
• the Indian navy
• actors and institutions - the dynamics of defence policy
• conclusion. Table 3.l Selected Indian air force and royal air force procurement, 1946-61
• Table 3.2 Military expenditure and procurement of sophisticated armament in India and Pakistan, 1948-62. Part 4 From humiliation to regional hegemony - the maturing of defence policy, 1962-80: the sino-Indian war of 1962
• defence policy
• the 1964 rearmament programme
• the strengthening of Soviet-Indian relations
• the 1965 Indo-Pakistan war - consolidation and a new direction
• the 1971 Indo-Pakistan war - the third round
• the Soviet Union and India - burgeoning dependency
• the Janata period - reduced dependency and increased procurement
• Indian defence policy, 1962-80 - answers in search of problems. Part 5 Indian arms imports - 1980-88: the new cold war and South Asia
• the Indian response
• the Indian army
• the Indian navy
• the Indian air force
• procurement in search of a policy? Part 6 India's defence sector, 1988-91 - the gravy train derailed: 1988 - the end of an era
• the Indian economy and the road to debt
• the defence sector in the late 1980s
• the end of the rupee - rouble trade
• India enters the arms bazaar. Part 7 Indigenous defence production - the failure of policy implementation: indigenous defence production in the South
• making the commitment
• indigenous production for the army
• indigenous production for the navy
• indigenous production for the air force
• the light combat aircraft - forward to the past?
• indigenous defence production - unfulfilled expectations. Part 8 Nuclear weapons and delivery systems: India and nuclear weapons - the early years
• India and nuclear policy before the non-proliferation treaty. Part contents.

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• NCID: BA32794418
• ISBN:
  • 019829168X
• LCCN: 93044216
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 267 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • DC20 : 355.033554
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : India -- Military policy
  • LCSH : India -- History, Military -- 20th century