拉吉夫·甘地

Rajiv Gandhi's premiership placed India at the center of a difficult transition from continental deterrence to active regional intervention. His importance lies not only in being a major Indian prime minister but in how his government handled insurgency, coercive diplomacy, and the Indian Peace-Keeping Force in Sri Lanka. His tenure was connected to the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord and the IPKF's rapid slide from peacekeeping into combat, conflict dynamics that later culminated in his assassination by the LTTE. His career illustrates how intervention intended to stabilize a region can instead deepen entanglement and generate long-tail blowback.