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

48 On the bilateral relations both “expressed satisfaction” at the economic exchanges and visualized “settling up joint ventures ...

49 neighbourhood. Thus, though both were members of the NAM, their understanding of non-alignment and role of external players i ...

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51 India, PIB. (2018, 17 February). The Union Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs, Shri Arun Jaitely leaves tonight on a t ...

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54 assistance, but with the help of the tribal militia Ikhwan wedded to the puritanical Wahhabi interpretations, Ibn Saud was ab ...

55 their counterparts in the Arabian Peninsula, and the earliest known con- tacts are traced to the Phoenician era (1500 BC) (Pa ...

56 could be the initial reason but the establishment of various Islamic dynasties since the eleventh century precluded the need ...

57 of Indian Muslims. They feared that granting of special privileges to Jews in Palestine would anger the Indian Muslims. This ...

58 milieu. This is integral to the Indian nationalists’ view of a diverse but inclusive India. The Bangladesh War of 1971 and th ...

59 At the same time, the Muslims of India have maintained a distinct religio-cultural identity with Urdu—a mixture of the Indian ...

60 The people-to-people contacts became pronounced with the commer- cial discovery of oil and the Saudi ability to manage its fi ...

61 Similar arguments regarding Indian Muslims have remained an anathema for the scholars and elites alike. Any suggestion of a r ...

62 One can stretch this argument to say that partly to accommodate the Muslim views the government adopted a policy that it did. ...

63 the formation of Pakistan posed new challenges to the Indian Muslims and limited the scope for pan-Islamism especially when t ...

64 Nasser. His military ‘defeat’ against the tripartite aggression in 1956 catapulted him as the leader of the Arab masses beyon ...

65 other monarchies were grudgingly playing a secondary role in regional politics. Military coups and turmoil in Syria and Iraq ...

66 suggest that King Faisal personally intervened to invite India for the Rabat meeting as he felt that a country of 60 million ...

67 Haj PIlgrImage Since Prophet Mohammed began this practice in 632 AD, the annual haj pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina has been t ...