Benoy Kumar Sarkar was the Father of Indian international relations. Before anyone else, and at a time when India was still under colonial rule, he built the framework for India's rise in the world and its contribution to geopolitics. He used ancient Indian knowledge systems and texts, from Kaultiya to Kalidasa, the idea of the mandala to the Mahabharata, to build the case for India's rise as a global power. A polymath who was an expert in international relations, history, sociology and economics, Sarkar could research and write in five languages and was a Sanskritist. \n\nFor the first time in more than a century, this book brings back Benoy Kumar Sarkar's seminal ideas that are invaluable in understanding the founding ideational pillars of rising India. The book comes with a brilliant introduction by Dr. Gautam Sen, himself a bit of a polymath, and who taught international political economy at the London School of Economics for more than two decades.