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23 Brown J. World Aff. 253 (2016)
India's Emerging Security Policy

handle is hein.journals/brownjwa23 and id is 254 raw text is: India's Emerging Security Policy SUMIT GANGULY Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations Indiana University Bloomington INDIA'S SECURITY POLICY HAS EVOLVED considerably since the country achieved its independence from Britain in 1947. Today, India faces several internal threats and two compelling external threats. The internal threats stem from the resurgence of neophyte Maoist guerilla violence in parts of northern and central India, an unsettled ethnic/secessionist movement in the disputed state ofJammu and Kashmir, continuing discontent in parts of India's northeast, and growing 253 radicalization of a small but significant segment of the Muslim community in the country. Finally, India also suffers from an antiquated and cumbrous defense acquisition system-one that has ill-served its armed forces and that has left the country increasingly vulnerable to external threats. What India appears to lack is a discernible grand strategy that could provide the necessary guidance to its national security policies. Instead, the government seems to be both reactive and idiosyncratic, with a minimal overarching strategic design. The external security threats that India faces have dogged its policymakers from the country's founding. The first external threat, from Pakistan, erupted within months of the partition of the British Indian Empire and the creation of the two states. Despite its material weakness vis-h-vis India, Pakistan chose to initiate a war to wrest the erstwhile princely state of Jammu and Kashmir on the basis of an irredentist claim. Though the salience of this dispute has waxed and waned over the last seven decades, it still remains unresolved.' In a related SUMIT GANGULY is Professor of Political Science and the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations at Indiana University Bloomington. He is also Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. His most recent book, Deadly Impasse: Indo-Pakistani Relations at the Dawn of the New Century, was published by Cambridge University Press in April 2016. Copyright © 2016 by the Brown Journal of WorldAffairs FALL/WINTER 2016 - VOLUME XXIII, ISSUE I

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