K.M. Panikkar and The Growth of a Maritime Consciousness in India
Contents: Foreword/Sardar K.M. Panikkar Select Works of K. M. Panikkar. Introduction. Part I: K. M. Panikkar: Life and Works. 1. K. M. Panikkar, the Historian: History as Maritime Geostrategy/Himanshu Prabha Ray. 2. The Versatility of Sardar K. M. Panikkar’s Intellect: An Overview/Raghul V. Rajan. 3. Panikkar, Geography and Sea Power/Patrick Bratton. Part II: K. M. Panikkar and Maritime India. 4. Revisiting Panikkar’s Maritime India: A Southeast Asian View/Asad-ul Iqbal Latif. 5. The Geopolitician and His Evolving Mental Map: A Critical Survey of K.M. Panikkar’s Geopolitical Reflections/Abhay Kumar Singh. 6. K. M. Panikkar’s Portrayal of Malabar as a Strategic Location at Indian Ocean during Portuguese and Dutch intervention/Athira Anand. Part III: The Epoch of Atlantic Power Dominance in the Indian Ocean: 15th -19th Century. 7. British Imperial Vision of the Indian Ocean with reference to the works of Sir Halford John Mackinder/Krishnendra Meena. 8. The Beginning of the Epoch: Portuguese Period in the Indian Ocean (1498-1660)/Amruta Karambelkar. 9. Sea Power in Shaping a Nation: A Case History of 18th Century Bay of Bengal/Odakkal Johnson. 10. Maritime Consciousness and the Ships of Discovery: Atlantic Dominance of the Indian Ocean, 15th-17th centuries/Rohan. Part IV: Rise of the Pacific: Geopolitical Contestations in the Indian Ocean in the 20th-21st Century. 11. Panikkar and the Growth of Maritime Consciousness in India/M P Muralidharan. 12. Russian perception of the strategic views of K.M. Panikkar/Alexey V. Kupriyanov. 13. K.M. Panikkar and Post-Colonial India: Maritime Strategic Thinking and Praxis/W. Lawrence S. Prabhakar and Vijay Sakhuja. 14. Indo-Pacific Strategy and India’s Opportunities and Challenges for Regional Economic Cooperation and Integration/Falendra Kumar Sudan. 15. Rise of the Pacific: Geopolitical Contestations in the Indian Ocean in the 20th-21st Century/Mohor Chakraborty. 16. India and the Quad: Steps towards Greater Maritime Security in the Indian Ocean Region/Manasi Misal-Tirodkar. 17. Geo-economic Imperative of Indo-Pacific: The Conflux of Trade and Connectivity/Priyanka Choudhury and Krishna Kataria. 18. Connecting EU with the Indo-Pacific: Strategizing Sustainable Development/Swati Prabhu. 19. Emergence of European Powers in the Indo-Pacific: Embracing New Geo-Political Realities/Akshay Honmane and Heena Sofi. 20. Human Web across the Oceans: Maritime Institutions and Regulation of Passenger Traffic in the 19th and Early 20th Century Indian Ocean Shipping with Special Reference to Calcutta Port/Soumyajit Mukherjee. Index.
Sardar KM Panikkar’s life and works form a fascinating narrative encompassing a wide diversity of roles, positions and interests. Panikkar was one of the early writers on the history of India’s connections with the Indian Ocean. His seminal historical and literary works have influenced contemporary thoughts and perceptions and played a formative role in orienting independent India’s maritime consciousness. Panikkar’s emphasis on the need for a well-considered and effective naval policy as critical to India’s security needs internalization amongst Indian political elite, policy makers, and academia, as there is a growing realisation of the significance of the Indian Ocean in India’s strategic calculus. This volume offers deep insights into Panikkar’s understanding and vision of the world and India and seas and oceans, with rich debates on geopolitics of those times, primacy of maritime issues, relevance of these on contemporary geopolitics, strategic dynamics and economic of trade and interdependence.
