Srinath Raghavan is a Senior Fellow at Carnegie India. He is also a Professor of International Relations and History at Ashoka University. His primary research focus is on the contemporary and historical aspects of India’s foreign and security policies.
Raghavan has written a number of books spanning international relations, strategic studies, and modern South Asian history. He has authored War and Peace in Modern India: A Strategic History of the Nehru Years (2010) and 1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh (2013) and co-authored Non-Alignment 2.0: A Foreign and Strategic Policy for India in the 21st Century (2013), India’s War: The Making of Modern South Asia, 1939-45 (2016), and, most recently, The Most Dangerous Place: A History of the United States in South Asia (2018).
In addition to writing several notable books, he has also edited Imperialists, Nationalists, Democrats: The Collected Essays of Sarvepalli Gopal (2013) and co-edited (with David Malone and C. Raja Mohan) The Oxford Handbook of Indian Foreign Policy (2015).
His work has also been published in scholarly journals, such as the Journal of Strategic Studies, Asian Affairs, and India Review, among other academic and policy-focused journals. He is a regular commentator in the media, and currently writes for The Print. His work has appeared in leading Indian publications.
He was awarded the K. Subrahmanyam Prize for his outstanding contribution to Strategic Studies in 2011 and the prestigious Infosys Prize (Social Sciences) in 2015.
Previously, he was a Senior Fellow at the Center for Policy Research in New Delhi. He was also a Senior Research Fellow at the India Institute at King’s College London and has taught at Defense Studies Department at King’s College London. He has been a member of the National Security Advisory Board, and was Chief Editor of the Kargil War History for the Indian Ministry of Defense. Prior to entering academia, he spent six years as an infantry officer in the Indian army.
