02117nam a22002297a 4500 20260701155105.0 260701b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780199459223 355.033 KAR Karnad, Bharat Why India is not a Great Power /Bharat Karnad New Delhi : Oxford University Press 2015. xiii, 552p 24cm. Since the economic liberalization of the early 1990s, India has been, on several occasions and at different forums, feted as a great power. This subject has been discussed in numerous books, but mostly in terms of rapid economic growth and immense potential in the emerging market. There is also a vast collection of literature on India’s ‘soft power’—culture, tourism, frugal engineering, and knowledge economy. However, there has been no serious exploration of the alternative path India can take to achieving great power status—a combination of hard power, geostrategics, and realpolitik. In this book, Bharat Karnad delves exclusively into these hard power aspects of India’s rise and the problems associated with them. He offers an incisive analysis of the deficits in the country’s military capabilities and in the ‘software’ related to hard power—absence of political vision and will, insensitivity to strategic geography, and unimaginative foreign and military policies—and arrives at powerful arguments on why these shortfalls have prevented the country from achieving the great power status. Of the deficits in the country’s military capabilities and in the ‘software’ related to hard power—absence of political vision and will, insensitivity to strategic geography, and unimaginative foreign and military policies—and arrives at powerful arguments on why these shortfalls have prevented the country from achieving the great power status. Social Science Military Scienc Economic Liberalization Economic Growth Foreign and Military Karnad, Bharat VC OFFICE 70142 70142 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2026-07-01 0 355.033 KAR VC061 2026-07-01 15:51:28 2026-07-01 VC OFFICE Books Received from VC office