Šumit Ganguly
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3594101 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Šumit Ganguly |
| PRENOMES | Šumit |
| SOBRENOME | Ganguly |
| ASSINATURA | GANGULY S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Indiana University Bloomington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4365-2637 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 160 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 320 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 155 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 9 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
What the Emergency Wrought
A new book illuminates the lasting consequences of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s imposition of a 21-month state of emergency in the mid-1970s, running roughshod over democratic institutions and norms cultivated by her father, Jawaharlal Nehru
Where India Stands After Modi’s First Decade in Power
In his first decade in power, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was emboldened by large parliamentary majorities to pursue an aggressive domestic reform agenda on issues ranging from public sanitation to taxation, as well as the Hindu nationalist priorities of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). But in his third term, Modi’s wings have been somewhat clipped after the BJP failed to renew its majority and was forced to form a governing coalition with smal…
Paul M. McGarr, Spying in South Asia
In the early 1970s, Piloo Mody, a leader of India's Swatantra Party, a small, feisty, free-market-oriented party, wore a placard emblazoned with the words, “I am a CIA agent” to the Indian parliament. Mody, a witty parliamentarian, was caricaturing Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's persistent claims that many of India's policy woes could be attributed to the machinations of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) across India. Her idée fixe about…
Escalation Risks Rising? Airpower in Kargil and Pahalgam
India’s Space Program
This chapter discusses India’s space program, which began with a focus primarily on the country’s civilian requirements but has matured, and India is now considered an established space power with its own launch capabilities and space exploration programs such as the moon and Mars missions. Compelled by changing regional security dynamics and the larger global space developments, the Indian space program has also expanded to address growing milit…
The Oxford Handbook of Indian Politics
This volume represents an attempt to provide as complete an overview of contemporary Indian politics as possible. While it takes into account the changes that have taken place since the 2014 and 2019 general elections, it situates these changes in the longer run-up to these developments, thereby covering both the long-term trajectories of Indian politics and important changes in the recent past and the present. To that end it deals with political…
Oxford Handbook of Indian Politics
India, Russia and the Ukraine Crisis
Churchill and India
Winston Churchill remains a figure of near unalloyed admiration among vast swaths of the public as well as academics, both in the United Kingdom and the United States. Both communities, quite predictably, dwell on his lofty rhetoric during the height of the Blitz over London, his unwavering resolve against Nazi Germany, and his erudition. Few scholars or popular authors have dwelled at any length on his rank and causal racism, his early interest …
The Sino-Indian Border Dispute
Among a host of rivalries in the post–World War II era, the Sino-Indian rivalry remains one of the most enduring. As is well known, it resulted in a sharp, short, and brutal war in October 1962 when a battle-hardened People's Liberation Army mostly routed woefully underprepared and hopelessly ill-equipped Indian forces for conflict in high-altitude areas. From India's standpoint it lost thirty-six thousand square kilometers of territory in the wa…
The Sino-Indian Rivalry
Drawing on a wide body of literature on international rivalries, this comprehensive and theoretically grounded work explains the origins and evolution of the Sino-Indian rivalry. Contrary to popular belief, the authors argue that the Sino-Indian rivalry started almost immediately after the emergence of the two countries in the global arena. They demonstrate how the rivalry has systemic implications for both Asia and the global order, intertwining…
Sino-Indian Rivalry
Reframing the US-Pakistan Strategic Renaissance
Modi’s Undeclared Emergency
This essay argues that a number of the policies that the current, ruling Bharatiya Janata Party government in India is pursuing threaten to rend the very fabric of India's democracy. Its policies toward press freedoms, civil liberties, and judicial independence are all profoundly inimical to the functioning of a democratic state. Unless these policies are checked or reversed the future of India’s democracy may well be imperiled
Modi's Undeclared Emergency
This essay argues that a number of the policies that the current, ruling Bharatiya Janata Party government in India is pursuing threaten to rend the very fabric of India's democracy. Its policies toward press freedoms, civil liberties, and judicial independence are all profoundly inimical to the functioning of a democratic state. Unless these policies are checked or reversed the future of India’s democracy may well be imperiled
Planning Democracy
On August 15, 2014, on the sixty-eighth anniversary of India's independence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi dismantled the Planning Commission, an institution that had existed since 1950. It was replaced with a new organization, the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog). However, unlike its predecessor, which had wielded vast powers to direct the allocation of governmental resources to various parts of India's economy on a five-y…
In the Name of the Nation
With the possible exception of the noted Indian journalist, Sanjoy Hazarika, few scholars or analysts have written about the contemporary politics of India's northeast with as much knowledge and authority as Sanjib Baruah. An earlier book, Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India (2005), had explored the reasons for the rise of ethnic insurgencies in the region and the sources of their persistence. That book demonstrated hi…
Kabul and a Strategic Triangle
India–Russia Relations after Ukraine
India and Russia have enjoyed a strong relationship since the collapse of the Soviet Union, partially as a legacy of the Indo–Soviet partnership during the Cold War. But how will this invasion impact future relations between New Delhi and Moscow? We argue that the war will likely harm this relationship over the long term, although some scenarios might minimize this harm. Western sanctions and Russian material losses in the war will make it diffic…
A Region in Turmoil
India’s Grand Strategy
India’s Military Modernization
Indian Foreign Policy. Oxford India Short Introductions
Chinese and Indian Strategic Behavior
Great Game East
Pakistan
Conflict Unending
Since their emergence as independent states from the British colonial empire, India and Pakistan have gone to war four times. This is a detailed explanation of the conflict, attributing it to three distinct components. The first is the divergent ideological commitments of the nationalist elites in the India and Pakistan anti-colonial movements. The second component is Pakistan's claim to Kashmir. The final component lies in the opportunistic even…
The Crisis of Indian Secularism
After fifty years of independence India maintains a constitutional commitment to secularism. However, the practice of secularism in India is now increasingly under attack. In the quest for electoral advantage, the once-dominant Congress Party, made a series of choices that compromised India's secular ethos. These choices enabled the explicitly anti-secular Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to dramatically expand its political base through the pursuit …
The Crisis in Kashmir
Explaining the Kashmir Insurgency
India's Pathway to Pokhran II
April 01 1999 India's Pathway to Pokhran II: The Prospects and Sources of New Delhi's Nuclear Weapons Program Šumit Ganguly Šumit Ganguly Šumit Ganguly is a Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. During the spring 1999 term, he will be a Visiting Professor of Government and South Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Search for other works by this author on: This …
An Illiberal India
In May 2019, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi won a second five-year term with a parliamentary majority unprecedented in recent decades (303 of 545 total seats). Under his leadership, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has for all practical purposes abandoned any pretense of upholding India's constitutional commitment to the values of secularism, political pluralism, and intellectual freedom. The BJP's antisecular, majoritarian vision threatens…
Explaining Sixty Years of India's Foreign Policy
The Transformation of U.S.-India Relations
The United States and India are enjoying increasingly close relations. This represents a transformation of the two countries' past relationship, which was characterized by suspicion and distrust. This change, which began with the end of the Cold War, has resulted from a convergence of structural, domestic, and individual leadership factors
Nuclear Stability in South Asia
An examination of the onset, evolution, and termination of the 1999 and 2001–02 crises between India and Pakistan suggests that nuclear deterrence is robust in South Asia. Even though the 1999 crisis erupted into a war, its scope and dimensions were carefully circumscribed. Despite its conventional capabilities, India chose not to cross the Line of Control (the de facto international border in the disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir), and it avoi…
The Origins of War in South Asia
In examining the forces that made the Indo-Pakistani relationship prone to conflict, Dr. Ganguly focusses first on the nature of the British colonial disengagement policy, a hasty and ill-conceived procedure that served to exacerbate the ideological differences between India's major political parties, the Congress and the Muslim League. Their competing views–the Congress espoused a secular polity while the League drew its inspiration from Islamic…
Government Policies and Ethnic Relations in Asia and the Pacific
Part 1 South Asia: Diversity, democracy, and devolution in India, Kanti Bajpai Centralization, authoritarianism, and the mismanagement of ethnic relations in Pakistan, Samina Ahmed Government policy and the ethnic crisis in Sri Lanka, Amita Shastri. Part 2 Southeast and east Asia: Fifty years of failure in Burma, Josef Silverstein Cultural diversity and national identity in Thailand Ethnic policies and political quiescence in Malaysia and Singapo…
Threats to Pluralism
Political liberalism in India is now under assault. The current right-of-center government, dominated by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), appears intent on transforming India's pluralistic, open, and secular state into an ethnic and illiberal democracy. To that end it has sought to place ideologues in key governmental institutions, attempted to curtail academic freedoms at a leading university, and made efforts to curb an otherwise feisty mass m…
The Jihad Paradox
Islamist militants based in Pakistan pose a major threat to regional and international security. Although this problem has only recently received widespread attention, Pakistan has long used militants as strategic tools to compensate for its severe political and material weakness. This use of Islamist militancy has constituted nothing less than a central component of Pakistani grand strategy; supporting jihad has been one of the principal means b…
The 2001–2002 Indo-Pakistani Crisis
Coercive diplomacy has long been seen as a viable alternative to war by political decision-makers. There is, however, a long line of credible academic and policy critique—stretching back to the Cold War—that asserts the failures of coercion almost always overwhelm its benefits. Our examination of the 2001–2002 Indo-Pakistani crisis supports the overall analytical consensus that coercive methods, under certain circumstances, accomplish little. We …
Conflict Unending
Ending the Sri Lankan Civil War
The Sri Lankan Civil War erupted in 1983 and dragged on until 2009. The origins of the conflict can be traced to Sri Lanka's colonial era and subsequent postcolonial policies that had significantly constrained the social and economic rights of the minority Tamil population. Convinced that political avenues for redressing extant grievances were unlikely to yield any meaningful results, a segment of the Tamil community turned to violence precipitat…
Pakistan's Forgotten Genocide—A Review Essay
In The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide, Gary Bass convincingly argues that the Nixon administration did little to rein in its ally Pakistan from perpetuating genocide against its own population largely because of Islamabad's vital role in facilitating U.S. diplomatic contact with the People's Republic of China. He also shows how the low strategic significance of South Asia for much of the global community, combined with…
Nepal
Nepal:Between Dictatorship And Anarchy Sumit Ganguly (bio) and Brian Shoup (bio) By any measure, Nepal's experience with democratization has been a tragic failure. Despite a 1990 popular revolution and the king's subsequent embrace of what looked like a serious attempt to introduce multiparty competition to the world's only officially Hindu divine-right monarchy, recent Nepalese history has been fraught with instability and strife. A decade-old M…
India and Pakistan
Based on the experience of the Cold War, some scholars hoped that the introduction of nuclear weapons into South Asia would promote peace between India and Pakistan. Instead, nuclear weapons made Pakistan less fearful of India's conventional military forces, and therefore help explain recent conflicts between them. Moreover, US expressions of concern about the possibility of inadvertent nuclear war in South Asia may have provided an incentive to …
Deterrence failure revisited
(1990). Deterrence failure revisited: The Indo‐Pakistani war of 1965. Journal of Strategic Studies: Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 77-93
Modi’s Undeclared Emergency
This essay argues that a number of the policies that the current, ruling Bharatiya Janata Party government in India is pursuing threaten to rend the very fabric of India's democracy. Its policies toward press freedoms, civil liberties, and judicial independence are all profoundly inimical to the functioning of a democratic state. Unless these policies are checked or reversed the future of India’s democracy may well be imperiled
Indian Foreign Policy under Modi
This forum comes from a 2016 panel at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association. The forum participants offered midterm assessments of the foreign policy of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This forum considers whether Modi heralded in a new era in Indian foreign policy, or whether Modi's policies just repackaged older policies. The authors in this forum answer these questions by focusing on a range of issues from the role o…
Avoiding War in Kashmir
Will the current simmering conflict over Kashmir lead to another subcontinental war? This complex question has plagued India-Pakistan relations since both countries gained independence in 1947, and over the past year tensions in the area have risen sharply. Continuing border skirmishes \nthreaten an already precarious situation, in which international and domestic politics are intertwined with the passions of rival ethnic, religious and partisan …
Has Modi Truly Changed India's Foreign Policy
The noted Indian foreign policy analyst, C. Raja Mohan, in a 2015 book, Modi's World: Expanding India's Sphere of Influence, argued that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had ushered in a “third republi
The Dilemmas of Development
The Origins of War in South Asia
In examining the forces that made the Indo-Pakistani relationship prone to conflict, Dr. Ganguly focusses first on the nature of the British colonial disengagement policy, a hasty and ill-conceived procedure that served to exacerbate the ideological differences between India's major political parties, the Congress and the Muslim League. Their competing views–the Congress espoused a secular polity while the League drew its inspiration from Islamic…
The Origins of War in South Asia
Of Great Expectations and Bitter Disappointments
During the Johnson administration three important events had a profound impact on the course of Indo-U.S. Relations. They were the IndoPakistani War of 1965, the rupee devaluation of 1966, and the selfhelp/short-tether agricultural aid policies of the Johnson administration. Each has been examined as a case study.' I shall focus on the divergent interests and expectations of the Indian and American decisionmakers and show how their asymmetric con…
The Sino-Indian Border Talks, 1981-1989
Rajiv Gandhi's visit to the People's Republic of China (PRC) in December 1988 was the first undertaken by an Indian prime minister since 1954. Though marked with considerable fanfare, including the inevitable trip to the Great Wall, the accomplishments of the visit were modest, primarily the creation of a Joint Working Group mandated to seek a solution to the long-standing border dispute. The two nations also agreed to broaden cultural, education…
Deterrence failure revisited
(1990). Deterrence failure revisited: The Indo‐Pakistani war of 1965. Journal of Strategic Studies: Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 77-93
Avoiding War in Kashmir
Will the current simmering conflict over Kashmir lead to another subcontinental war? This complex question has plagued India-Pakistan relations since both countries gained independence in 1947, and over the past year tensions in the area have risen sharply. Continuing border skirmishes \nthreaten an already precarious situation, in which international and domestic politics are intertwined with the passions of rival ethnic, religious and partisan …
Materialist feminism and the politics of discourse
South Asia after the cold war
The Hope and the Reality
India
Essay| December 01 1993 India: Charting a New Course? Sumit Ganguly Sumit Ganguly Sumit Ganguly, a professor of political science at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington during 1993-1994. A grant from the United States Institute of Peace provided research support for this article. The author is grateful to Rajan Menon and Andrew…
Ethno‐religious conflict in South Asia
The Hope and the Reality
India and the Crisis in Kashmir
With the end of the Cold War, regional security problems have become paradigmatic. Whereas they were once seen primarily as functions of-or in some cases even epiphenomenal to-superpower rivalry, they are now central. International security is largely regional security in the absence of a global strategic conflict. As a result, attention has shifted from consideration of the global strategic balance to local conflict. Broadly, these local conflic…
The origins of war in South Asia
In this second edition of the only comprehensive and comparative study of the three Indo-Pakistani conflicts. Sumit Ganguly deepens his exploration of the causes and consequences of these clashes. Reassessing the origins of war in South Asia and ongoing ethnic strife in the region, he identifies and examines key developments, including shifts in policymaking necessitated by the collapse of the Soviet Union and the incipient nuclear weapons progra…
Indo‐Pakistani Nuclear issues and the stability/instability paradox
The incipient nuclearization of South Asia appears to have reproduced a variant of Glenn Snyder's "stability/instability paradox" in the region. The danger of escalation to the nuclear level has significantly limited the prospects of direct interstate conflict. Simultaneously, both India and Pakistan are involved in supporting indigenous insurgencies in their respective states. Decision makers in both capitals see the risks of these ventures as c…
Wars without End
The three Indo-Pakistani conflicts (1947-48, 1965, and 1971) were all characterized by a low threshold of violence, limited scope, and short duration. A number of factors explain the limited extent of these conflicts: the common British imperial heritage, the lack of doctrinal innovation, and the paucity of highly sophisticated weaponry. Although these three factors are no longer relevant today, the current recrudescence of violence in Kashmir is…
Chester Bowles
India
Essay| December 01 1996 India: Between Turmoil and Hope Šumit Ganguly Šumit Ganguly Šumit Ganguly is a professor of political science at Hunter College and the Graduate School of the City. University of New York. He is the author of Kashmir: Between. War and Peace (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) and coeditor with Ted Greenwood of Mending Fences: Confidence and Security-Building Measures in South Asia (Boulder, Colo.: Westview…
Uncertain India
Essay| April 01 1996 Uncertain India Sumit Ganguly Sumit Ganguly Sumit Ganguly is a professor of political science at Hunter College, City University of New York. He is the author of Between War and Peace: The Kashmir Question Revisited (Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, forthcoming). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1996) 95 (600): 145–150. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1996.9…
Explaining the Kashmir Insurgency
Mending Fences
The Crisis in Kashmir
India in 1996
Research Article| February 01 1997 India in 1996: A Year of Upheaval Sumit Ganguly Sumit Ganguly Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1997) 37 (2): 126–135. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645478 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citatio…
Kashmir 1947
(1998). Kashmir 1947: Burdens of the past, options for the future ‐ four perspectives. Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 92-123
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