Foreign Policy of Colonial India

Focusing on the relations of the Government of India with states along the territorial rim of the Indian Empire and along the routes that connected Britain with India, the author examines the foreign policy of the Raj during the last fifty years of British rule in India.

Sneh Mahajan was Associate Professor of History at Indraprastha College, Delhi University. She was also Senior Academic Fellow at the Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi. In 2012, she was elected President of the Non-Indian History Section of the Indian History Congress held at Mumbai. Her research interests include international history, modern Indian history, British foreign policy and strategy, and imperial history. She is the author of British Foreign Policy: The Role of India 1874-1914 (Routledge).

1. Determinants of the Foreign Policy of Colonial India 2. Managing the Northern Frontier 3. The Great Game on the North-West Frontier 4. The Eastern Frontier 5. Colonial India and the Indian Ocean Rim 6. Concluding Comments