Srinath Raghavan
| Srinath Raghavan | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater |
Officers Training Academy King's College London |
| Occupation | Historian |
Srinath Raghavan is Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, specialising in contemporary and historical aspects of India’s foreign and security policies.[1] He is also a visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Department of War Studies, King's College London and a visiting professor of international relations at the Ashoka University in Haryana.
Raghavan is a regular commentator on foreign and strategic affairs. He has been a member of India's National Security Advisory Board. In 2015, he was appointed as the 'official historian' of the Kargil War by India's Ministry of Defence He is a recipient of the K. Subrahmanyam Award for Strategic Studies (2011) and the Infosys Prize for Social Sciences (2015). [2]
Life
Raghavan received MA and PhD in War Studies from the King's College London and taught there for several years. Prior to joining the academia, he spent six years as an infantry officer in the Indian Army.[1]
Publications
- Raghavan, Srinath (2016), India's War: The Making of Modern South Asia, 1939-1945. India: Penguin Books Limited. ISBN 1846145430[3]
- Raghavan, Srinath (2013), 1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh. USA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674728646 [4]
- Raghavan, Srinath (2010), War and Peace in Modern India: A Strategic History of the Nehru Years. India: Palgrave Macmillan and Permanent Black. ISBN 978-0-230-27751-9 [5]
Srinath Raghavan's work spans historical and contemporary aspects of international relations and strategic studies. His books include War and Peace in Modern India: A Strategic History of the Nehru Years (Palgrave Macmillan and Permanent Black, 2010); 1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh (Harvard University Press and Permanent Black, 2013); and most recently India's War: The Making of Modern South Asia, 1939-45 (Penguin Allen Lane and Basic Books 2016). He has also edited Imperialists, Nationalists, Democrats: The Collected Essays of Sarvepalli Gopal (Permanent Black, 2013); co-edited with David Malone & C. Raja Mohan, The Oxford Handbook of Indian Foreign Policy (Oxford University Press, 2015); and co-authored with Sunil Khilnani et al, NonAlignment 2.0: A Foreign and Strategic Policy for India (Penguin, 2013). He is currently finishing a book on United States' involvement in South Asia from the late nineteenth century to the present. He is also at work on a history of India in the long 1970s.[2]
References
- 1 2 "Srinath Raghavan | Centre for Policy Research". www.cprindia.org. Retrieved 2017-06-27.
- 1 2 University, Ashoka. "Faculty/Staff | Ashoka University". Ashoka University. Retrieved 2017-06-27.
- ↑ "India's War, The Making of Modern South Asia, 1939-1945 by Srinath Raghavan". www.penguin.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-06-27.
- ↑ "1971 — Srinath Raghavan | Harvard University Press". www.hup.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-27.
- ↑ War and Peace in Modern India | S. Raghavan | Palgrave Macmillan.