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This book uses the Mahabharata to explore the current global strategic problems and India’s foreign policy challenges. The author, who is also India’s External Affairs Minister, finds this epic to be a vivid distillation of Indian thought on statecraft, which also provides a graphic account of real-life situations and complex challenges faced by leaders even today. The Indian study of foreign policy has so far been rooted in European history and Western political thought, but that is beginning to change. This new scholarship, which draws from an ancient epic, underlines its universal relevance.