India and the Cold War

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    • Bhagavan, Manu Belur

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India and the Cold War

edited by Manu Bhagavan

(The new Cold War history)

University of North Carolina Press, c2019

  • : cloth

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Includes index

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  • Journeys of discovery : the state visits of Jawaharlal Nehru and Liaquat Ali Khan to the United States / Pallavi Raghavan
  • The Soviet peace offensive and Nehru's India, 1953-1956 / Swapna Kona Nayudu
  • Faiz, love, and the fellowship of the oppressed / Syed Akbar Hyder
  • The accidental global peacekeeper / Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu
  • A missed opportunity? : the Nehru-Zhou Enlai Summit of 1960 / Srinath Raghavan
  • Nuclear ambiguity and international status : India in the Eighteen-Nation Committee on Disarmament, 1962-1969 / Rohan Mukherjee
  • Promoting development without struggle : Sino-Indian relations in the 1950s / Anton Harder
  • Indira Gandhi, the "long 1970s," and the Cold War / Priya Chacko
  • Bertrand Russell in Bollyworld : film, the Cold War, and a postmortem on peace / Raminder Kaur
  • Hindu nationalists and the Cold War / Rahul Sagar

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This collection of essays inverts the way we see the Cold War by looking at the conflict from the perspective of the so-called developing world, rather than of the superpowers, through the birth and first decades of India's life as a postcolonial nation. Contributors draw on a wide array of new material, from recently opened archival sources to literature and film, and meld approaches from diplomatic history to development studies to explain the choices India made and to frame decisions by its policy makers. Together, the essays demonstrate how India became a powerful symbol of decolonization and an advocate of non-alignment, disarmament, and global governance as it stood between the United States and the Soviet Union, actively fostering dialogue and attempting to forge friendships without entering into formal alliances. Sweeping in its scope yet nuanced in its analysis, this is the authoritative account of India and the Cold War. Contributors: Priya Chacko, Anton Harder, Syed Akbar Hyder, Raminder Kaur, Rohan Mukherjee, Swapna Kona Nayudu, Pallavi Raghavan, Srinath Raghavan, Rahul Sagar, and Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu.

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