Sullivan, Kate Helen creator text xu| 2008 continuing ng p.73-76. In the course of public contestation and debate, political parties in India have attempted to garner acceptance for their respective positions on the Indo-Us nuclear deal by drawing on key historical norms. Notions of freedom, which have historically constituted a primary feature in Indian foreign policy discourse, continue to feature in foreign policy debate and form a focus of consensus and dissent even today in India as it was during the dawn of independence. - Reproduced. Nuclear weapons Economic and Political Weekly 180718