Drawing on a vast array of documents-including rare access to the Nehru papers-Frankel provides an authoritative account of how the seeds of mistrust in India-U.S. relations were planted when the guiding principles of India's foreign policy were being formulated, in a fertile soil of competing national interests and priorities, fueling mutual suspicion that would last half a century.
Francine R. Frankel is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Founding Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI) at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a Founding Member of the University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India (UPIASI), New Delhi, the counterpart institution of CASI. She is the author, or co-editor of eight books, including India's Political Economy, 1947-1977, and India's
Political Economy, 1947-2004, second edition.