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This book offers a critical sociological examination of the elite Indian Foreign Service and its members, examining how Indian diplomats learned to live under a Westernized world order and exploring what their experience reveals about social hierarchies under global order.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: Method: Power, Pluralism, and Privilege
- 2: Genealogy: Balliol and Bandung
- 3: World-Making: Protest and Protocol
- 4: Representation: Cosmopolitan Elites, Domestic Others
- 5: Pedagogy: Making Diplomats in India
- 6: Interregnum: The End of the Cosmopolitan Elite?
- Epilogue: A World of Difference
About the author
Kira Huju is a Fellow in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She works on global order, liberal internationalism and its discontents, India, post-Western IR, and the nature of cosmopolitanism in a hierarchical world. Previously, she was a Departmental Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Oxford. She obtained her doctorate in International Relations from the University of Oxford in 2021, developing a critical sociological reading of the Indian Foreign Service and the making and unmaking of cosmopolitan elites in international society.
Summary
This book offers a critical sociological examination of the elite Indian Foreign Service and its members, examining how Indian diplomats learned to live under a Westernized world order and exploring what their experience reveals about social hierarchies under global order.
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Her self-awareness, her nuanced approach and her inclination to address sensitive topics make the book a refreshing take on the study of Indian diplomacy and the IFS.
