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'{{short description|Indian historian of contemporary history (born 1977)}} {{Use Indian English|date=December 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2017}} {{Infobox scholar | honorific_prefix = <!-- see [[MOS:HONOURIFIC]] --> | name = Srinath Raghavan | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = <!-- use only if different from full/othernames --> | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1977}} <!-- {{birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | birth_place = | death_date = <!-- {{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | death_cause = | region = | nationality = Indian | citizenship = | residence = | other_names = | occupation = Senior Fellow, [[Centre for Policy Research]] | period = | known_for = | title = | boards = <!--board or similar positions extraneous to main occupation--> | spouse = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards = [[Infosys Prize]] | website = | education = [[University of Madras]]<br>[[King's College London]] | alma_mater = | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = [[Lawrence Freedman]] | academic_advisors = | influences = <!--must be referenced from a third party source--> | era = | discipline = [[Military history]] and [[Security studies]] | sub_discipline = <!--academic discipline specialist area – e.g. Sub-atomic research, 20th Century Danish specialist, Pauline research, Arcadian and Ugaritic specialist--> | workplaces = <!--full-time positions only, not student positions--> | doctoral_students = <!--only those with WP articles--> | notable_students = <!--only those with WP articles--> | main_interests = | notable_works = ''War and Peace in Modern India''<br/>''1971: A Global History''<br/>''India's War: The Making of Modern South Asia''<br/>''The Most Dangerous Place''<br/> | notable_ideas = | influenced = <!--must be referenced from a third party source--> | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | footnotes = }} '''Srinath Raghavan''' is an Indian historian of [[contemporary history]]. He is a professor of [[history]] and [[international relations]] at the [[Ashoka University]]<ref name="Ashoka" /> and a senior fellow at the [[Carnegie Endowment for International Peace]]. He is also a visiting senior research fellow at the India Institute of the [[King's College London]]<ref name="KCL">{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/kii/people/sraghavan.aspx|title=Dr Srinath Raghavan|publisher=King's College London|accessdate=4 December 2017}}</ref> and previously, was a senior fellow at the [[Centre for Policy Research]], specialising in contemporary and historical aspects of India’s [[foreign policy|foreign]] and [[security policy|security policies]].<ref name=CPR>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cprindia.org/people/srinath-raghavan |title=Srinath Raghavan |publisher=Centre for Policy Research |access-date=2017-06-27}}</ref> Raghavan has authored and edited multiple books, which have been subject to critical acclaim. about India's strategic history, and has been a regular commentator on foreign and strategic affairs. He is a recipient of the K. Subrahmanyam Award for Strategic Studies (2011) and the [[Infosys Prize]] for Social Sciences (2015).<ref name=Ashoka>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ashoka.edu.in/faculty#!/srinath-raghavan-72|title=Srinath Raghavan (Faculty Profile) |publisher=Ashoka University |access-date=2017-06-27}}</ref><ref>[http://www.business-standard.com/article/punditry/a-conversation-with-historian-srinath-raghavan-115121000364_1.html A conversation with historian Srinath Raghavan], Business Standard, 10 December 2015.</ref> == Life == Srinath Raghavan was born in 1977. He studied in [[Hyderabad]], [[Kolkata]] and [[Chennai]], graduating with a bachelor's degree in physics from the [[University of Madras]] in 1997.<ref name="Permanent Black">[http://permanent-black.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/infosys-laureate-2015-srinath-raghavan.html Infosys Laureate 2015: Srinath Raghavan], Permanent Black, 16 November 2015.</ref> Raghavan joined the Indian Army in 1997 as a commissioned officer in the infantry. He worked for six years in the [[Rajputana Rifles]], serving in [[Sikkim]], [[Rajasthan]] and [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]]. He termed his "short service" in the Army as an "extended break", during which he figured out his future direction.<ref name=BS/> He entered the academia in 2003, studying at [[King's College London]] on an Inlaks scholarship. He worked with [[Lawrence Freedman]], Professor of War Studies at King's College, receiving an MA and PhD in War Studies.<ref name=KCL/> His Ph.D. dissertation was the basis of his first book, ''War and Peace in Modern India''.<ref name="Permanent Black"/> Afterwards, Raghavan worked as a lecturer in [[Defence studies]] at King's College, teaching there for three years. He currently works at the Carnegie India, a policy think tank in New Delhi.<ref name=CPR/><ref name=BS>[https://www.pressreader.com/india/business-standard/20160917/281857233001862 Military intelligence], Business Standard, 17 September 2016.</ref> Raghavan is a prolific writer, having published three works on the strategic history of India between 2010–2016. He is working on three further books.<ref name=BS/> In 2015, Raghavan was chosen by India's Ministry of Defence to head a team of historians working on the official history of the [[Kargil War]]. The project was to last two years.<ref name=Kargil>[http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/editorials/the-fear-of-history-kargil-war-conflict-india-pakistan-china-sri-lanka-2937448/ The fear of history], The Indian Express, 27 July 2016.</ref> He has served as a member of the [[National Security Advisory Board]] formed by the Indian Prime Minister.<ref name=KCL/> == Books == === ''War and Peace in Modern India: A Strategic History of the Nehru Years'' === His first book, it covered the strategic history of [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]'s premiership and was published as part of ''The Indian Century Series'' edited by scholars [[Ramachandra Guha]] and [[Sunil Khilnani]]. The editors stated in the book's preface that Raghavan has set a "benchmark" for the historical study of the strategic and foreign policy issues of India. He 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.<ref>{{citation |last1=Khilnani |first=Sunil |last2=Guha |first2=Ramachandra |chapter=Series Editor's Preface |title= and Peace in Modern India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EbtBJb1bsHUC |date=2010 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-1-137-00737-7 |page=x}}</ref> Scholar Kristina Roepstorff, in a book review, agreed that the book successfully illuminates the rationale behind the strategic choices made by Nehru in facing the major dilemmas during his tenure. It offers a "brilliant account" of the events that shaped Nehru's strategic thinking and his approach to crisis management. She assessed the book's original findings are highly relevant to the ongoing crises in the subcontinent. However, while the book contained excellent historical account, she found it to be short on "theoretical reflection". She also noted that the book covered a selection of case studies, mainly dealing with India's princely states and crises with neighbours but omitted the international dimensions further out, such as the crises dealing with [[Indian annexation of Goa|Goa]] or [[Congo Crisis|Congo]]. She felt that further justification of the selection of cases was necessary to avert selection bias in drawing general conclusions.<ref>{{citation |first=Kristina |last=Roepstorff |chapter=Srinath Raghavan, ''War and Peace in Modern India'' (Book Review) |title=Südasien-Chronik - South Asia Chronicle |volume=2 |year=2012 |pages=441–448 |publisher=Südasien-Seminar der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |isbn=978-3-86004-286-1 |chapter-url=https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/bitstream/handle/18452/18639/441.pdf?sequence=1}}</ref> Shashank Joshi called the book a "commanding diplomatic history" of the Nehru years.<ref>{{cite news |last=Joshi |first=Shashank |url=http://www.caravanmagazine.in/perspectives/paradigm-trap |title=A Paradigm Trap |newspaper=The Caravan |date=1 May 2012}}</ref> [[Odd Arne Westad]] called it "international history at its very best".<ref>{{citation |last=Raghavan |first=Srinath |title=War and Peace in Modern India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EbtBJb1bsHUC |date=2010 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-1-137-00737-7 |at=Back cover}}</ref> Scholar Jivanta Schottli called it "polished historical study",<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Schottli |first1=Jivanta |title=''War and Peace in Modern India'' by Srinath Raghavan (Review) |journal=Contemporary South Asia |date=September 2011 |volume=19 |issue=3 | pages=344–345 |doi=10.1080/09584935.2011.594286 |s2cid=218543142 |issn=0958-4935}}</ref> and Rudra Chaudhuri said it should be considered "the single most important text on Indian strategic history".<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Chaudhuri |first1=Rudra |title=''War and Peace in Modern India: A strategic history of the Nehru years'' by Srinath Raghavan (Review) |journal=Cold War History |date=October 2014 |volume=14 |issue=4 |pages=705–706 |doi=10.1080/14682745.2014.955690 |s2cid=154360723 |issn=1468-2745}}</ref> Priya Chacko noted that it is meticulously researched and draws on previously untapped archival sources, such as the private papers of British officials, allowing Raghavan to circumvent the usual limitations of diplomatic history.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Chacko |first1=Priya |title=Srinath Raghavan, (Ranikhet: Permanent Black), 2010, pp. 359 |journal=The Indian Economic & Social History Review |date=July 2011 |volume=48 |issue=2 |pages=305–307 |doi=10.1177/001946461104800211|s2cid=144338163 }}</ref> Historian [[Perry Anderson]] finds that Srinath Raghavan is a firm apologist for India and describes his book as a hymn to Nehru's strategism.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pboDnQEACAAJ|title=The Indian Ideology|author=Perry Anderson|publisher=Verso|year=2013|isbn=978-1-78168-259-3|page=85|quote=Footnote 46: Even such a staunch apologist for New Delhi as Srinath Raghavan, a former Indian Army officer, author of a book that is a prolonged hymn to Nehru's strategic sagacity}}</ref> === ''1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh'' === The book has been subject to positive reception, among critics.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ganguly|first=Sumit|date=2016-10-07|title=1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh by Srinath Raghavan (review)|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/632286|journal=Journal of Cold War Studies|language=en|volume=18|issue=3|pages=194–195|issn=1531-3298|doi=10.1162/JCWS_r_00660|s2cid=57559829}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Iqbal|first=Iftekhar|date=2014-12-01|title=Srinath Raghavan. 1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh.|url=https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article/119/5/1661/44651|journal=The American Historical Review|language=en|volume=119|issue=5|pages=1661–1662|doi=10.1093/ahr/119.5.1661|issn=0002-8762}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Carter|first=David|date=2014-09-02|title=Srinath Raghavan. 1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh; Gary J. Bass. The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide|journal=Asian Affairs|language=en|volume=45|issue=3|pages=519–521|doi=10.1080/03068374.2014.954220|s2cid=161348197|issn=0306-8374}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://networks.h-net.org/node/22055/reviews/33151/newberg-raghavan-1971-global-history-creation-bangladesh|title=Newberg on Raghavan, '1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh' {{!}} H-Asia {{!}} H-Net|website=networks.h-net.org|access-date=2020-01-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/book-reviews/1971-a-global-history-of-the-creation-of-bangladesh-by-srinath-raghavan/|title=1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh {{!}} By Srinath Raghavan {{!}} Pacific Affairs|website=pacificaffairs.ubc.ca|access-date=2020-01-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Mathur|first=Nameeta|date=2014-09-22|title=1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh|url=https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-386612813/1971-a-global-history-of-the-creation-of-bangladesh|journal=Canadian Journal of History|volume=49|issue=2|pages=335|issn=0008-4107|doi=10.3138/cjh.49.2.335|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/LYovXLite2v9KBBUjpSzmK/Book-Review--Bangladesh-1971-An-ambiguous-war.html|title=Book Review {{!}} Bangladesh 1971: An ambiguous war?|last=Chandrasekaran|first=Gayatri|date=2013-10-03|website=Livemint|language=en|access-date=2020-01-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Mohaiemen|first=Naeem|date=January 2016|title=1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh. By Srinath Raghavan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. Pp. 368. {{text|ISBN}} 10: 0674728645; {{text|ISBN}} 13: 978-0674728646. - The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide. By Gary J. Bass. New York: Knopf, 2013. Pp. 528. {{text|ISBN}} 10: 0307700208; {{text|ISBN}} 13: 978-0307700209.|journal=International Journal of Asian Studies|language=en|volume=13|issue=1|pages=105–108|doi=10.1017/S1479591415000303|issn=1479-5914}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-unexpected-country|title=David Gilmour - The Unexpected Country|website=Literary Review|language=en|access-date=2020-01-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/global-politics-and-the-birth-of-bangladesh/article5440861.ece|title=Global politics and the birth of Bangladesh|last=Joshi|first=Manoj|date=2013-12-09|work=The Hindu|access-date=2020-01-06|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/23/unholy-alliances-3|title=Unholy Alliances|last=Mishra|first=Pankaj|magazine=The New Yorker|date=2013-09-16|access-date=2020-01-06|language=en|issn=0028-792X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sehepunkte.de/2016/07/25516.html|title=SEHEPUNKTE - Rezension von: 1971 - Ausgabe 16 (2016), Nr. 7/8|website=www.sehepunkte.de|access-date=2020-01-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Rahman|first=Mizanur|date=2015-01-01|title=Srinath Raghavan, 1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh|url=https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-449107970/srinath-raghavan-1971-a-global-history-of-the-creation|journal=Southeast Review of Asian Studies|volume=37|pages=100|issn=1083-074X}}</ref> === ''India's War: The Making of Modern South Asia, 1939-1945'' === The book has been subject to positive reception, among critics.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kumar|first=Pavan|date=2018-01-01|title=India's war: the making of modern south Asia 1939–1945|journal=International Affairs|language=en|volume=94|issue=1|pages=218–219|doi=10.1093/ia/iix197|issn=0020-5850|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Thakur|first=Atul K.|date=2017-05-04|title=India's war: the making of modern south Asia (1939–1945)|journal=Strategic Analysis|volume=41|issue=3|pages=303–305|doi=10.1080/09700161.2017.1295608|s2cid=157361079|issn=0970-0161}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/indias-war-the-making-of-modern-south-asia-1939-1945-by-srinath-raghavan-book-review-a6950401.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220524/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/indias-war-the-making-of-modern-south-asia-1939-1945-by-srinath-raghavan-book-review-a6950401.html |archive-date=24 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=India's War by Srinath Ragh: More than a bastion of the British Empire|date=2016-03-24|website=The Independent|language=en|access-date=2020-01-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/8140f8ec-f030-11e5-9f20-c3a047354386|title='India's War', by Srinath Raghavan|last=|first=|date=|website=www.ft.com|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-01-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://networks.h-net.org/node/22055/reviews/150381/deshpande-raghavan-indias-war-world-war-ii-and-making-modern-south|title=Deshpande on Raghavan, 'India's War: World War II and the Making of Modern South Asia' {{!}} H-Asia {{!}} H-Net|website=networks.h-net.org|access-date=2020-01-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://literaryreview.co.uk/bose-arrows|title=John Keay - Bose & Arrows|website=Literary Review|language=en|access-date=2020-01-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/03/the-making-of-modern-india/|title=The making of modern India|date=2016-03-26|website=The Spectator|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thediplomat.com/2016/09/making-modern-south-asia-indias-role-in-world-war-ii/|title=Making Modern South Asia: India's Role in World War II|last=Gady|first=Franz-Stefan|website=thediplomat.com|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=2015-06-05|title=India's War for the Empire|url=https://www.epw.in/journal/2016/50/book-reviews/indias-war-empire.html|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|language=en|volume=51|issue=50|pages=7–8}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thewire.in/books/review-chronicling-the-birth-of-india-after-the-second-world-war|title=Review: Chronicling the Birth of India after the Second World War|website=The Wire|access-date=2020-01-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/books/a-war-for-the-empire-a-battle-against-the-raj/|title=A War For the Empire, a Battle Against the Raj|date=2017-11-24|website=The Indian Express|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ranjan|first=Amit|date=2016-09-01|title=Srinath Raghavan. India's War: The Making of Modern South Asia, 1939–1945|journal=Asian Affairs|volume=47|issue=3|pages=500–502|doi=10.1080/03068374.2016.1225924|s2cid=164222126|issn=0306-8374}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Towle|first=Philip|date=2016-11-01|title=India's War: The Making of Modern South Asia 1939–1945|journal=The Round Table|volume=105|issue=6|pages=750–752|doi=10.1080/00358533.2016.1246819|s2cid=157966478|issn=0035-8533}}</ref> === ''The Most Dangerous Place: A History of the United States in South Asia'' === The book has been subject to positive reception, among critics.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/the-most-dangerous-place-a-history-of-the-united-states-in-south-asia-review-tangled-up-in-knots/article24298739.ece|title=The Most Dangerous Place: A History of the United States in South Asia review: Tangled up in knots|last=Haidar|first=Suhasini|date=2018-06-30|work=The Hindu|access-date=2020-01-06|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/culture/books/a-new-way-to-look-at-the-us-in-south-asia/cid/1683302|title=A new way to look at the US in South Asia|website=www.telegraphindia.com|language=en|access-date=2020-01-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://thebookreviewindia.org/illuminating-past-patterns-and-future-challenges/|title=Illuminating Past Patterns And Future Challenges|website=The Book Review|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://openthemagazine.com/lounge/books/the-anatomy-of-power/|title=The Anatomy of Power|date=2018-06-20|website=Open The Magazine|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-01-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://networks.h-net.org/node/22055/reviews/3515710/subramaniam-raghavan-fierce-enigmas-history-united-states-south-asia|title=Subramaniam on Raghavan, 'Fierce Enigmas: A History of the United States in South Asia' {{!}} H-Asia {{!}} H-Net|website=networks.h-net.org|access-date=2020-01-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thewire.in/books/review-americas-deep-history-with-south-asia|title=Review: America's Deep History With South Asia|website=The Wire|access-date=2020-01-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://theprint.in/pageturner/afterword/never-mind-the-title-the-most-dangerous-place-is-an-absorbing-read/68205/|title=Never mind the title, 'The Most Dangerous Place' is an absorbing read|last=Malhotra|first=Jyoti|date=2018-06-10|website=ThePrint|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/books/the-most-dangerous-place-book-review-history-of-us-in-south-asia-5219426/|title=Terms of Engagement|date=2018-06-16|website=The Indian Express|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/up-front/story/20180625-rules-of-american-engagement-1261023-2018-06-16|title=Not Found {{!}} IndiaToday|website=www.indiatoday.in|access-date=2020-01-06}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Raghavan, Srinath}} [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:21st-century Indian historians]] [[Category:21st-century Indian non-fiction writers]] [[Category:Indian political writers]] [[Category:Indian editors]] [[Category:21st-century Indian educators]] [[Category:1977 births]]'