Critical Issues in Indian Politics is a series dealing with decisive events, processes, and institutions in Indian Politics. It focuses on the ideas, events, decisions, and social forces, which underlie key debates and complex changes that have transformed India in the past two decades.

This volume traces the trajectory of India’s foreign policy in the 21st century, through studies that cut across various geographical regions, theoretical frameworks and policy issues. The volume examines the factors that have shaped the Indian response towards this emerging international security environment.

Some very useful observation and pertinent suggestion have been outlined in this course of the book that would be of value to policymakers and the strategic community on both sides, and perhaps this policy relevance of the book is its greatest strength.

The System of Objects ranks as one the most important books of poststructuralist cultural criticism. Pressing Freudian and Saussurean categories into the service of a basically Marxist perspective, Baudrillard offers a cultural critique of the commodity in consumer society.

The book discusses the acquisition of nuclear weapons by India and Pakistan and its effect on security of the South Asian region. The author contends that nuclear weapons have significantly destabilized the Indian subcontinent.

Left and Right in Global Politics argues that the left-right divide connects these different levels in a world political debate. They conclude by discussing the implications of their argument for the analysis of world politics, and contend that the left-right opposition is here to stay.

Gyanendra Pandey’s writings have profoundly influenced our understanding of anti-colonial nationalism, communal strife, and history-writing. This omnibus brings together three landmark books by him that describe an arc from a critique of nationalism to a critique of history.