I am delighted to bring you this issue dedicated to examining India’s China challenge. I belong to the school of thought that believes that India’s “China Challenge” is no longer a periodic crisis at the contested borders; it has become the permanent structural backdrop against which Indian strategic thinking must now be measured. It is India’s primary contradiction. In this issue of India’s World, we move beyond the immediate headlines of disengagement or escalation to unpack the multidimensional nature of this contradiction.
The revolution that overthrew Mohammad Reza Shah was not originally an Islamist project. It was a broad coalition of liberals, nationalists, Marxists, clerics, and merchants united by opposition to the Shah’s autocracy.
