ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a bird’s eye view of India’s evolving security strategy by placing it within the ambit of global involvement and India’s position in world affairs in the 21st century. India is a young nation state, with a rich cultural and civilisational consciousness of the past. India, since the beginning of the Cold War, suffered from three shortcomings: first, Jawaharlal Nehru’s relegating market economics to a minor position in diplomacy; second, his inability to understand the inevitable onslaught of the potential power of an information age in the making; and, third, the long period of Nehru’s leadership as Prime Minister. The sweeping victory of Narendra Modi in the national election in 2014, had a significant impact, regionally and globally. Modi’s strategic vision and perspectives have ushered in a degree of strategic competition and a situation to maintain the status quo on India-China relations.
