Indian Foreign Policy

8	Conclusion

This book has argued that foreign policy has been a key site for the production of India's postcolonial identity. A reconceptualization of Indian foreign policy as postcoloniality was therefore suggested, and this has entailed a focus on the co-constitution of foreign policy, ethics and identity. I have argued that the politics of negotiating the colonial encounter continued to inform India's foreign policy in the postcolonial era and that successive governments have grappled in various ways with the ethico-political project established by India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Nehru established foreign policy as a key arena for the enactment of a postcolonial identity underpinned by a desire to both embrace and repudiate ...