Srinath Raghavan

Srinath Raghavan is Professor of International Relations and History at Ashoka University. He previously taught at King’s College London and worked at Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. He also serves as the Head of the Department for the Department of International Relations in Ashoka University

Raghavan has served as a member of the National Security Advisory Board. He was the Chief Editor of the Kargil War History for the Ministry of Defence, Government of India. Prior to entering academia, he spent six years as an infantry officer in the Indian Army.

A Selected List of his published books are:

• War and Peace in Modern India: A Strategic History of the Nehru Years (Macmillan & Permanent Black, 2010)

• 1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh (Harvard University Press & Permanent Black, 2013)

• India’s War: The Making of Modern South Asia, 1939-1945 (Penguin Allen Lane & Basic Books, 2016)

• The Most Dangerous Place: A History of the United States in South Asia (Penguin Allen Lane & Basic Books, 2018)

• et al of NonAlignment 2.0: A Foreign Strategic Policy for India in the Twentieth Century (Penguin, 2013; co-authored with Sunil Khilnani)

• Imperialism, Nationalism, Democracy: The Collected Essays of Sarvepalli Gopal (Permanent Black, 2013)

• The Oxford Handbook of Indian Foreign Policy (Oxford University Press, 2015; edited with David Malone and C.Raja Mohan)

A list of his published articles are-

• Srinath Raghavan (2019) The Security Dilemma and India–China Relations, Asian Security, 15:1, 60-72, DOI: 10.1080/14799855.2019.1539818

• Srinath Raghavan (2012) Soldiers, Statesmen, and India's Security Policy, India Review, 11:2, 116-133, DOI: 10.1080/14736489.2012.674829

• Srinath Raghavan (2018) Military technological innovation in India: A tale of three projects, India Review, 17:1, 122-141, DOI: 10.1080/14736489.2018.1415286

• Srinath Raghavan (2009) A Coercive Triangle: India, Pakistan, the United States, and the Crisis of 2001–2002, Defence Studies, 9:2, 242-260, DOI: 10.1080/14702430902921486

• Srinath Raghavan (2009) Civil–Military Relations in India: The China Crisis and After, Journal of Strategic Studies, 32:1, 149-175, DOI: 10.1080/01402390802407616

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