This book explores how post-colonial India encountered international relations after independence, how it established a foreign policy and negotiated a place in the ‘family of nations’ and how these engagements changed Indian politics. In so doing, it borrows from feminist, critical and post-colonial approaches, and especially from critical geography, emphasising scale and space, and focussing on the establishment of borders and the management of territory. Itty Abraham is particularly concerned with what he calls the ‘emotional and affective meaning invested in territory deemed national by the state and its people’ (p. 14). These different meanings, he argues, make the settlement of territorial disputes in particular – a core problem of Asian international relations – challenging: the prospect of losing territory destabilises settled understandings of the state and nation.