Book Review: How India Sees The World by Shyam Saran
The book is written in a temporal manner, right from times of Mahabharata. Author has tried to interpret India’s foreign policy and world view during different eras. He has analysed the theories and writing, related to foreign policy, from different tall standing personalities of the past such as Kautilya ( Arthashastra ), Ashoka (Royal Edicts), etc and other ancient treaties on state crafts in the beginning, and then moving to assertiveness in foreign policy under present government, towards the end of book. Throughout the book, the author constantly reveals interesting anecdotes and keeps connecting them to Kautilya’s Arthashastra . Author refers to the entire Indian Sub-continent as one homogenous land, geopolitically as well as ecologically. On similar lines, he explains the idea of South Asian Customs Union, Common Currency as well as South Asian Parliament. Author believes that India has played and will continue to play the most significant part in growth and development of ...