ABSTRACT
A new book by C. Raja Mohan meticulously documents how September 11 helped move India's foreign policy away from Nehravian "idealism" to a new realism rooted in what the Foreign Minister of the time, Jaswant Singh, would wistfully describe as neo-Curzonian geopolitics. Entitled Crossing the Rubicon, the book describes the BJP's (the Bharatiya Janata Party) shift towards a foreign policy which places India's security interests at the heart of an Asian geopolitical order.
