India\'s Saudi Policy - P. R. Kumaraswamy, Md. Muddassir Quamar

India’s Saudi Policy Bridge to the Future P. R. KUMARASWAMY AND MD. MUDDASSIR QUAMAR ...

India’s Saudi Policy ...

P. R. Kumaraswamy Md. Muddassir Quamar India’s Saudi Policy Bridge to the Future ...

ISBN 978-981-13-0793-5 ISBN 978-981-13-0794-2 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0794- Library of Congress Control Numbe ...

To our guru Professor M. S. Agwani With respect and gratitude ...

vii On the late afternoon of 23 March 2018, an Air India flight from New Delhi arrived in the Ben-Gurion International Airport j ...

viii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and the prime credit goes to Shri Hamid Ansari, former vice-president of India. For nearly two decades he ...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix Professor M. S. Agwani, the doyen of the Middle Eastern studies in the country, has been our guru who passed ...

xi 1 Introduction 2 The Nehru Era 3 Drifting Apart 4 Islamic Dimension 5 Pakistan Factor 6 Palestine Factor 7 The Shift 8 Trans ...

xii CONTENTS List of Indian Ambassadors to Saudi Arabia 223 Nehru-King Saud Joint Statement, 1956 225 Indo-Saudi Arabian Econom ...

xiii P. R. Kumaraswamy is Professor of Contemporary Middle East Studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. From 19 ...

xiv ABOUT THE AUTHORS Eastern Studies. He has co-edited an anthology titled Contemporary Persian Gulf: Essays in Honour of Gulsh ...

xv list of figures Fig. 9.1 India-Saudi Arabia Bilateral Trade. (Source: Directorate General of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Comme ...

xvii list of tAbles Table 9.1 India-Saudi Arabia bilateral trade (US$ million) 171 Table 9.2 India’s energy imports from Saudi A ...

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2 Cultural and civilizational associations between India and Arabia flourished primarily because of geographic proximity. The De ...

3 the Arabian Peninsula and, according to some, the inheritor of Jaziratul Arab, both in geographical and psychological sense, i ...

4 These external changes could not have come at a worst time. The end of the Cold War coincided with the domestic economic crisi ...

5 appetite for energy resources as the domestic resources could not cope with the galloping hydrocarbon requirements. Until then ...

6 These paved the way for an interest convergence, and for the first time since 1947, India and Saudi Arabia began learning to s ...