Includes bibliographical references and index.

India's Gulf policy : from non-alignment to multi-alignment / Md Muddassir Quamar -- India and the Gulf : through the prism of neoclassical realism / Harsh V. Pant and Anant Singh Mann -- India's strategic partnerships in the Gulf : context, objective, and components / Manjari Singh -- Revisiting non-alignment : domestic contestation of India's roles in the Gulf / Hasan T. Alhasan -- Indian foreign policy towards the Gulf States : strategic narratives and domestic political projects / Stuti Bhatnagar -- India's paradiplomacy and the Gulf Region : challenges and opportunities / Kabir Taneja.

"India's foreign policy in the Gulf has undergone a significant transformation in recent years. From the oil boom of the 1970s to Narendra Modi's aggressive regional outreach after 2014, the density of India's interactions with the region in the form of migration, financial remittances, and trade has grown by multiple orders of magnitude. India has reconfigured its diplomatic and strategic ties with the Gulf states accordingly. This volume examines the subject from a variety of theoretical lenses and methodological approaches. It treads a range of traditional and emergent themes in India's foreign policy in the Gulf region, including India's alignment choices, its strategic partnerships in the region, the paradiplomacy of Indian states in the region, and the competing political projects shaping India's outlook on the Gulf"-- Provided by publisher.