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    Long-term studies on trends and issues in South Asia

    130 : An Outsider’s View of Some Issues in Contemporary Indian Foreign Policy

    David M. Malone

    26 August 2011

    Anand Giridharadas wrote in 2009 that India is ‘a country harder to describe than to explain, and easier to explain than to understand’, and that ‘India is a place for seeking, not concluding’. 2 This is a profoundly true but also humbling observation for a non- Indian author addressing a topic such as Indian foreign policy.