Reframing India’s Palestine Policy

P.R. Kumaraswamy

Contemporary Review of the Middle East, 2017, vol. 4, issue 1, 3-17

Abstract: The traditional framing of India’s approach to the Palestine question is inadequate to explain the bourgeoning relations with Israel. Anti-colonialism through which Indian leaders and elites viewed the problem was important, but there are other issues, especially the religious dimension as manifested by the Congress–Muslim League rivalry, which influenced the Indian thinking. The prolonged depiction of the Indian position vis-à -vis Palestine through a moral prism became untenable in the wake of the normalization of relations with Israel in 1992 and hence it is essential to view the Palestine policy of India through a realist prism.

Keywords: Israel; Palestine; morality; Khilafat; political realism; India–Middle East (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1177/2347798916681316

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