Invite you to a Book Discussion THE MAKING OF INDIAN DIPLOMACY A CRITIQUE OF EUROCENTRISM With Author Deep K. Datta-Ray In Conversation with Faisal Devji Reader in Indian History, University of Oxford
EVENT DETAILS
DATE		Friday, July 10, 2015
TIME		5:00 PM  - 6:00 PM (Registration & Tea: 4:30 pm onwards)
LOCATION		WWF India Auditorium, 172 -B, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi – 110003
SPEAKER		Mr. Deep K. Datta-Ray, Assistant Professor, Jindal School of International Affairs and Author of “The Making of Indian Diplomacy: A Critique of Eurocentrism”
CHAIR		Dr. Faisal Devji, Reader in Indian History, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford
ABOUT THE EVENT
Is Indian Diplomacy simply a derivative of European colonial models? On the basis of observed practices, and informal interactions and interviews with Ministers and diplomats, the author argues that the core of Indian diplomatic practice is to be found in the national epic, the Mahabharata, whose influence he traces from pre-Mughal times to the present. Further investigation of Indian diplomacy reveals its non-Western rationale, while its presence at the heart of a state presumed Western at inception reveals new possibilities about how to conceptualize post-colonial India, its purpose and role on the world stage. While nation states authorised by nationalism remain hostage to the past, the Indian state's arena for action is very much the present, as is rational its objective of non-violently terminating violence. The event will in the process shed new light on the current nature of the Indian state.
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SPEAKER   Mr. Deep K. Datta-Ray, Assistant Professor, Jindal School of International Affairs and Author of “The Making of Indian Diplomacy: A Critique of Eurocentrism” Deep K. Datta-Ray is an Assistant Professor at Jindal School of International Affairs. He holds a BA in Chinese History from SOAS, an MA in War Studies from King’s College, London and a DPhil in International Relations from the University of Sussex. Prior to joining JSIA, Deep worked for nearly a decade as a business consultant with several international firms and in New York, London, Singapore and Mumbai.  He also wrote extensively for newspapers, appearing most frequently in the South China Morning Post and the Times of India. The only outsider to have been embedded in any Foreign Ministry, Deep was attached to India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) for his DPhil. The result is a monograph, The Making of Indian Diplomacy. The author’s investigation reveals Indian diplomacy’s non-Western rational, while its presence at the heart of a state presumed Western at inception reveals new possibilities about how to conceptualise post-colonial India, its purpose and role on the world stage. Most significant is that while nation-states authorised by nationalism remain hostage to the past, the Indian state’s arena for action is very much the present, as is rational its objective of non-violently terminating violence now.    CHAIR Dr. Faisal Devji, Reader in Indian History, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford Devji received his PhD in intellectual history from the University of Chicago, and has held faculty positions there as well as at Yale University, the New School for Social Research in New York and the Graduate Institute in Geneva. He was a junior fellow at the Society of Fellows, Harvard University, and is an Institute of Public Knowledge Fellow at New York University. Faisal Devji is the author of four books, Landscapes of the Jihad (2005), The Terrorist in Search of Humanity (2008), The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence (2012) and Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea (2013). About Ananta Aspen Centre Ananta Aspen Centre is an independent and not-for-profit organisation that seeks to foster positive change in society through dissemination of knowledge. The Centre facilitates discussions on issues of international significance, values-based leadership and cross-sector outreach by engaging the civil society, government, private sector, and other key stakeholders.  To know more, Please log on to www.anantaaspencentre.in

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