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Not an Absent Dialogue
The Absent Dialogue: Politicians, Bureaucrats, and the Military in India edited by Anit Mukherjee, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2020; pp xvii + 313, ₹1,100.
There is a constant search for harmony among the three principal stakeholders of national security: the political establishment, the civilian bureaucracy and the professional military. The issue of civil–military relations is a thorny issue in any democracy and India, being affected by its share of controversies, is no exception to the rule.
Anit Mukherjee, a former Indian army officer and currently an assistant professor at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies, continues the discussion among many writers, retired officers, academics and researchers as he attempts to prove his hypothesis of an “absent dialogue” between the three critical pillars of India’s national security architecture.
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