1st Edition
The Indian Civil Service and Indian Foreign Policy, 1923–1961
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.
Biography
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.
