The article reviews India’s contested role of a great power in global politics. Although showing tangible results across all the aspects pertaining to the great power status, in international relations India is still largely underestimated and even overlooked. Politicians and scholars generally mention three main reasons behind that phenomenon: weak social and economic figures, the country’s relatively narrow global impact the absence of strategic culture. We argue that the latter is key, and that it is in the process of being remedied. In fact, India already has all the prerequisites for being recognised as a ‘great power’, since it has political, military, economic and cultural capabilities corresponding to the status. It is simply a matter of time and coordinated efforts of the government to formulate and implement a consistent foreign policy and economic strategy as well as a change in Indian elite’s strategic thinking which will enable untapping India’s existing potential and successfully meeting the objective of increasing its influence in global politics.

这篇文章回顾了印度在全球政治中作为大国的有争议的角色。尽管在与大国地位有关的各个方面都取得了实实在在的成果，但在国际关系中，印度仍然在很大程度上被低估甚至被忽视。政治家和学者普遍提到这一现象背后的三个主要原因：社会和经济数字薄弱，国家相对狭窄的全球影响力和战略文化的缺失。我们认为后者是关键，并且正在得到补救。事实上，印度已经具备了被承认为“大国”的所有先决条件，因为它拥有与地位相对应的政治、军事、经济和文化能力。