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Book Review | Sardar Patel: An Icon of India’s Unity, by Harish K. Thakur (ed.), New York, Routledge India, 2025, 1st edition, 204 pp., £146, ISBN 1041210531.- Published on
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This commentary argues that multiplexity helps explain why materially superior states often fail to convert battlefield dominance into political victory in small wars. It introduces relational movement as the process through which weaker actors preserve resistance by reconfiguring alliances, expanding participation, and shifting legitimacy under coercive pressure.
