In this video interview with TPNRD director Judd Birdsall, Professor Ian Hall discusses his new TPNRD-commissioned policy brief on The Hindu Right and India’s Religious Diplomacy. The report argues that India’s diplomacy has an increasingly Hindu character, reflecting the present government’s conviction that India is essentially a Hindu civilization that has much to teach the world. Prof. Hall examines the drivers of India’s contemporary religious diplomacy, its target audiences, its practitioners within and outside the government, and its likely influence.
Ian Hall is a professor of international relations at the Griffith Asia Institute at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. He is also an academic fellow of the Australia India Institute at the University of Melbourne. His research focuses on India’s international relations. His most recent book is Modi and the Reinvention of Indian Foreign Policy (2019).