Adarsh Vijay
@mcc.edu.in
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Madras Christian College
Adarsh Vijay is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Madras Christian College, Chennai. He completed his graduation and post-graduation in Political Science from the Madras Christian College. His areas of research include Maritime Security, Maritime Strategy, Blue Economy and Maritime Diplomacy. Mr. Vijay was a Research Intern at the International Strategic and Security Studies Programme (ISSSP) at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru. His research articles have been published by various think tanks both in India and abroad. He is also a co-author of the textbooks on Political Science for classes XI and XII, recently published by the State Council of Education, Research and Training (SCERT), Government of Tamil Nadu. His recent publications include “Invoking the domain competence principle in India’s maritime governance: A case for an Indian Maritime Service” in the Maritime Affairs: Journal of the Nat
EDUCATION
B.A. Political Science
M.A. Political Science
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Maritime Security, Nuclear Deterrence, Outer Space Security and Civil-Military Relations
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Adarsh Vijay, R. Vidya, and S. Kiran Raghul Raj
Informa UK Limited
ABSTRACT India’s growing role as a maritime powerhouse beckons unprecedented opportunities and challenges. The present mode of maritime governance characterised by the outdated role of generalists, particularly the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), is nothing more than an unfaded representation of a colonial stopgap arrangement with no scientific substance per se. Irrespective of an ideation that took place in 2014, the Indian Maritime Service (IMS) as a technocratic cadre for maritime administration never came to fruition. The commentary builds a rationale for IMS as a non-uniformed branch of specialists in view of the highly technical frontiers of civilian maritime domain, which is left in the hands of generalists. It concludes with the requirement of recalibrating the civil services with sub-specialist credentials to enhance the Indian maritime trajectories.