The Indian Civil Service and Indian Foreign Policy, 1923-1961

ISBN-13: 9780367633417 / Miękka / 2023 / 314 str.

Amit Das Gupta

Opis

This book provides an authoritative account of the first significant overseas diplomatic missions and forays made by Indian civil servants. It recounts the key events in the formative decades of Indian foreign policy and looks at the prominent figures who were at the centre of this decisive period of change.

Spis treści

List of photographs. Preface. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations.  Introduction. I. Set-Up. 1. How it all began – Indians overseas 2. Key Protagonists – Girja Shankar Bajpai, K.P.S. Menon and Subimal Dutt II. Interwar Years - The Department of Education, Health and Lands 3. South Africa 4. East Africa 5. Ceylon 6. Malaya 7. Fiji, British Guiana, Australia and North America 8. World War II III. Nehruvian Foreign Policy 9. Return to Power 10. The Bajpai Years in the MEA 11. Bajpai’s Heirs 12. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.

O autorze

Amit Das Gupta is Senior Researcher at the Universität der Bundeswehr, München, Germany. His previous work includes Serving India: A Political Biography of Subimal Dutt (1903–1992), India’s Longest Serving Foreign Secretary; The Sino-Indian War of 1962: New Perspectives (coedited with Lorenz M. Lüthi, McGill); and Handel, Hilfe, Hallstein-Doktrin. Die bundesdeutsche Südasienpolitik unter Adenauer und Erhard 1949 bis 1966.