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

28 accompanied by the notions of territorial nationalism and not religious identities or loyalties. In the aftermath of the demi ...

29 priorities continued even in the later part of the Cold War after Nehru. Though there were new challenges, the post-Nehru tra ...

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34 The power shift in favour of Saudi Arabia was sudden and came when India’s international fortunes were sliding. Nehru’s inter ...

35 Though Saudi Arabia was present, the Belgrade meet was a Nehru- Nasser- Tito show. Shortly after this, India faced the border ...

36 Amidst the family tussle in the early 1960s, the al-Saud also witnessed political challenges from Egypt and its leader Nasser ...

37 activist like Nasser’s Egypt, Riyadh was “active in Afro-Asian, Arab League and non-aligned forums. They consistently champio ...

38 moved a step closer a few years later. On the eve of the Bangladesh War of 1971, it took a strategic step and signed the Indo ...

39 geostrAtegic shifts The early 1950s saw the ascendance of Nasser as his pan-Arabism held its sway in much of the Middle East ...

40 Sensing the opportunity, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia joined hands with King Hasan V of Morocco and organized the first Islami ...

41 crisis—supply disruption and price hike—transformed the Western, especially European, attitude towards the Arab-Israeli confl ...

42 serious disagreements; while the official narrative maintained that it was for India, Islamabad argued that its consent was f ...

43 in the then East Pakistan which resulted in the deaths of two million per- sons, and at least 200,000 Bengali women, mostly y ...

44 The oil crisis, however, brought benefits to India and both have had long-term implications upon the Indo-Saudi relations. As ...

45 Thus, since the mid-1960s India had to face a Middle East where pan- Islamism replaced pan-Arabism as the dominant political ...

46 Faisal’s 1981 visit was also the first at that level since the Kingdom’s foreign ministry was established in 1930 and sought ...

47 out a royal red-carpet reception, and when she arrived in Riyadh, she was received by Crown Prince and Deputy Prime Minister ...