Srinath Raghavan is a professor of history and international relations at Ashoka University, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a visiting senior research fellow at the India Institute of King's College London.
16 Facts About Srinath Raghavan
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Srinath Raghavan was previously a senior fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, specialising in contemporary and historical aspects of India's foreign and security policies.
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Srinath Raghavan is a recipient of the K Subrahmanyam Award for Strategic Studies and the Infosys Prize for Social Sciences.
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Srinath Raghavan studied in Hyderabad, Kolkata and Chennai, graduating with a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Madras in 1997.
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Srinath Raghavan joined the Indian Army in 1997 as a commissioned officer in the infantry.
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Srinath Raghavan served for six years in the Rajputana Rifles, in Sikkim, Rajasthan and Jammu and Kashmir.
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Srinath Raghavan entered academia in 2003, studying at King's College London on an Inlaks scholarship.
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Srinath Raghavan worked with Lawrence Freedman, Professor of War Studies at King's College, receiving an MA and PhD in War Studies.
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Srinath Raghavan published three works on the strategic history of India between 2010 and 2016 and was working on further books.
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In 2015, Srinath Raghavan was chosen by India's Ministry of Defence to head a team of historians working on the official history of the Kargil War.
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Srinath Raghavan has served as a member of the National Security Advisory Board formed by the Indian Prime Minister.
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The editors stated in the book's preface that Srinath Raghavan has set a "benchmark" for the historical study of the strategic and foreign policy issues of India.
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Srinath Raghavan has covered the strategic crises faced by India in the first fifteen years of its independent existence, using a range of sources and analytical depth.
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Srinath Raghavan felt that further justification of the selection of cases was necessary to avert selection bias in drawing general conclusions.
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Priya Chacko noted that it is meticulously researched and draws on previously untapped archival sources, such as the private papers of British officials, allowing Srinath Raghavan to circumvent the usual limitations of diplomatic history.
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Historian Perry Anderson finds that Srinath Raghavan is a firm apologist for India and describes his book as a hymn to Nehru's strategism.