Army and Nation

Steven I Wilkinson

Permanent Black

304 pages, Rs. 795

Wilkinson draws on uniquely comprehensive data to explore how and why independent India has succeeded in keeping the military out of politics when so many other countries have failed. The book uncovers the decisions, structures and policies that have helped keep things so, and asks whether these will survive the current national conflicts over caste and regional representation in Delhi, as well as India’s external and strategic challenges.