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Sahadeo's article examines Julian Go's Patterns of Empire from the viewpoint of a historian of Russia's southern borderlands of the Caucasus and Central Asia. Go offers a pathway for scholars of other expansionist regimes, including the tsarist state and the Soviet Union, to break down exclusivist mythologies and think beyond the nation. In turn, Sahadeo's article examines steps toward a transnational history of empire that builds on Go's peripheral model.

Ever since India attained its independence in August 1947 the makers of the foreign policy of the newly sovereign state-led by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister-were driven by two principal goals: retention of complete autonomy in the pursuit of its foreign policy to safeguard India's national interests and the determination to make a major impact on the course of post-world war II international relations defined as it was by the cold war rivalry between the United States led 'western bloc' and the Soviet Union led bloc located primarily in Eastern Europe. This is not to say that the other objectives of India's foreign policy such as decolonisation, disarmament, strong moral and material support for the United Nations, and peaceful co-existence in a nuclearised world were any less important. However, it was strongly felt that if the two. primary goals were not met India would not be able to make any effective contribution on the other issues which bedeviled the world at the time.