This thread introduces ways of analyzing India’s interactions with the outside world, reviewing some scholarship including my own. Traditionally, studies of India have adopted a closed country framework as internally India is quite complex I call this a “inside-out” framework. In the last few years, there has emerged a new set of articles and conclusions that goes beyond an inside-out analysis. Key ideas of this nascent scholarship are:

Indian politics has thrown up certain puzzles in the past decade or so and especially after the recent elections: Why did the BJP win UP assembly elections despite anti-incumbency and economic distress? At one level, this question resonates with a jointly co-authored article that brings together the question of economic reforms and politics success. That article is at the level of policy and strategy : www-tandfonline-com.ccl.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10.10…