ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at how the international relationships of South Asia have developed in the years since Independence. It also looks at South Asia in its international context at some different moments in time, and from a variety of perspectives. The word 'international' subsumes two different kinds of relationships: those between the South Asian states themselves, and those between South Asian states and countries outside the region. The rivalry with Russia was what Kipling termed 'The Great Game', and the phrase has been used ever since to hint at some stratospheric geo-political game of chess, beyond the vision of mere earth-bound mortals. Contiguity of location and complementarity of resources are particularly distinguishing marks of the geopolitical region.' The Eurasian region is divided into the USSR and China. In India, the Communist Party was in avowed opposition to Congress, and in the early fifties sponsored a terrorist revolution in the Telengana region of Andhra.
