Scholars studying India’s tradition of stra- tegic planning have generally focused on Kautilya’s Arthasastra (3rd century BCE) as the root text. However, another stream of research has debated whether India possesses a strategic culture at all. This perspective was propagated by George Tanham, an American defence analyst, who argues that India has always suffered, and continues to suffer, from a lack of a tradition of strategic thinking.
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Sameer Patil
HINDUISM AND THE ETHICS OF WARFARE IN SOUTH ASIA: FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT by Kaushik Roy Cambridge University Press, New Delhi, 2014, 288 pp., 995
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