Baldev Raj Nayar is currently Emeritus Professor of Political Science at McGill University in Montreal. He is the author of over a dozen scholarly books dealing with international relations, political economy, comparative politics and South Asia.
1. Introduction: India and its search for a major power role; 2. Major power status in the modern world: India in comparative perspective; 3. The constraints on India: international and domestic; 4. India's quest for a major power role under Nehru: the formative grand strategy of a new state, 1947
1964; 5. Strategy in hard times: the long march to building capabilities after Nehru, 1964
1990; 6. After the Cold War: adaptation, persistence, and assertion, 1991
2001; 7. Conclusions: India and the emerging international order.
