India’s Post-Independence Strategic Culture: A Case Study of India’s Cooperation With the United States and Russia in Military Modernization

IF 1 4区社会学 Q2 AREA STUDIES

Journal of Asian and African Studies Pub Date : 2025-01-17 DOI:10.1177/00219096251313553

Saroj Kumar Aryal, Simant Shankar Bharti

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Despite some controversy regarding its usefulness, strategic culture has become a widely accepted phrase in the sense of a ‘shaping framework’ for strategic behaviour. Due to its relevance in attaining a goal, the strategic has become a multidisciplinary term that can be construed in a variety of ways. In the case of India, strategic culture explains why the country has taken a very different approach to national security and foreign policy than other countries in similar situations. Postcolonial India, unlike China or Pakistan, did not seek alliances with strong countries to strengthen its national security, staying ‘nonaligned’ even after major wars in 1962 and 1965. After the rise of the BJP in the Indian government since 2014, although realpolitik and Hindu nationalism provide alternatives to the Nehruvian legacy that has dominated Indian strategic culture, Nehruvianism continues to dominate the country’s strategic thought. Thus, this article aims to access India’s defence cooperation with the United States and Russia, through the lens of strategic culture.

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印度独立后的战略文化：以印度与美俄军事现代化合作为例

尽管对其有用性存在一些争议，但战略文化已经成为一个被广泛接受的短语，在战略行为的“塑造框架”的意义上。由于它与实现目标的相关性，战略已经成为一个多学科术语，可以用各种方式解释。就印度而言，战略文化解释了为什么该国在国家安全和外交政策上采取了与其他处于类似情况的国家截然不同的做法。与中国和巴基斯坦不同，后殖民时代的印度没有寻求与强国结盟以加强国家安全，即使在1962年和1965年的重大战争之后也保持“不结盟”。自2014年印度人民党在政府中崛起以来，尽管现实政治和印度教民族主义为主导印度战略文化的尼赫鲁遗产提供了替代选择，但尼赫鲁主义继续主导着该国的战略思想。因此，本文旨在通过战略文化的视角来了解印度与美国和俄罗斯的防务合作。

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