A survey of Indian foreign policy since Independence might help us test the link between political ideology and foreign policy. The conventional wisdom of India’s foreign policy establishment has been that the foreign policy choices before successive Indian governments have been uniform. Narendra Modi came to office as a decisive populist promising a more virile foreign policy. Modi’s largest foreign policy gamble has been the abolition of the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Foreign policy choices, or political choices with foreign policy implications, are, in fact, shaped by ideological positions.

Source: The Telegraph September 29, 2019 01:18 UTC