ABSTRACT
Presenting an overview of the think tank landscape in India and the relevance of these institutions to the foreign policy-making process, this chapter lays out crucial perspectives uncovered in this volume. It provides an explanation and rationale for consideration of the India-Pakistan dispute to critically examine think tank development in India and their engagement with policy agendas on Pakistan, particularly during the structured Composite Dialogue initiated in 2004. Responding to inadequacies in the literature on Indian think tanks, this chapter highlights the development of the unique Discursive Institutionalist-Gramscian model as a theoretical explanation of think tank behaviour in India. It lays out the details of the research design and methodology used to account for the think tank role in India and the use of comparative categories of prominent Indian think tanks and their research programmes on India-Pakistan relations.
