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This book is the first comprehensive account of last 55 years of Indian foreign policy in the light of domestic milieu.

‘Domestic Imperatives in India’s Foreign Policy’ is an authentic, scholarly, analytic and informative assessment of the interplay of various domestic factors that guide and mould India’s foreign policy and relations. Product of several years of painstaking research, it is the first comprehensive and systematic treatment of the last 55 years of India’s foreign policy in the light of domestic milieu. Instead of following the usual practice of describing events in sequence form, the book unearths the factors and forces that condition India’s foreign policy and prescribes policy frame for serving national interest. It is tailored to explicitly ask and answer the question, namely how have the various components of India’s domestic system interacted with each other and together guided and molded its foreign policy from its initial setting to the present day. It is also a sincere endeavor to develop a theoretical framework for understanding domestic imperatives in India’s foreign policy.

While applying the general analytical framework in the specific case of India, the book examines the implications of the food crisis and political instability of the sixties, the Bangladesh crisis and the Emergency proclamation of the seventies, domestic conflicts of the eighties and nineties and the dawn of the coalition era since the nineties for India’s foreign policy and relation. The book ends with a consideration of India’s future role in a changing world in terms of emerging realities and their policy perspectives.