India's Nuclear Debate : Exceptionalism and the Bomb (Record no. 954)
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| fixed length control field | 01836nam a22001697a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780415563123 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 327.17470954 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Malik, Priyanjali |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | India's Nuclear Debate : Exceptionalism and the Bomb |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | New Delhi |
| Name of publisher | Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group |
| Year of publication | 2010 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | ix,344 Pages |
| Other physical details | 14x22 cm |
| -- | HB |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | War and International Politics in South Asia |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Include Glossary, Bibliography and Index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Making the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party’s nuclear tests in 1998 its starting point, this book examines how opinion amongst India’s ‘attentive’ public shifted from supporting nuclear abstinence to accepting ― and even feeling a need for ― a more assertive policy, by examining the complexities of the debate in India on nuclear policy in the 1990s. The study seeks to account for the shift in opinion by looking at the parallel processes of how nuclear policy became an important part of the public discourse in India, and what it came to symbolise for the country’s intelligentsia during this decade. It argues that the pressure on New Delhi in the early 1990s to fall in line with the non-proliferation regime, magnified by India’s declining global influence at the time, caused the issue to cease being one of defence, making it a focus of nationalist pride instead. The country’s nuclear programme thus emerged as a test of its ability to withstand external compulsions, guaranteeing not so much the sanctity of its borders as a certain political idea of it ― that of a modern, scientific and, most importantly, ‘sovereign’ state able to defend its policies and set its goals. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | India |
| -- | Nuclear warfare--Government policy |
| -- | Nuclear disarmament--Public opinion |
| -- | Nuclear weapons--Government policy |
| -- | Public opinion |
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| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Collection code | Permanent Location | Current Location | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Non-fiction | Garrison Public Library Multan | Garrison Public Library Multan | General Stacks | 2016-11-21 | MSL | 795.00 | 327.17470954 M236I 2010 | 17093 | Books |