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The Indian civil service and Indian foreign policy, 1923-1961 / Amit Das Gupta.

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 o...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Das Gupta, Amit (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
Subjects:
Civil service > India > History > 20th century.
India > Foreign relations > 1919-1947.
India > Foreign relations > 1947-1984.
Civil service.
Diplomatic relations.
India.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction
  • Part I Set-up
  • 2 How it all began - Indians overseas
  • 3 Key protagonists - Girja Shankar Bajpai, K.P.S. Menon and Subimal Dutt
  • Part II Interwar years - The Department of Education, Health and Lands
  • 4 South Africa
  • 5 East Africa
  • 6 Ceylon
  • 7 Malaya
  • 8 Fiji, British Guiana, Australia and North America
  • 9 Second World War
  • Part III Nehruvian foreign policy
  • 10 Return to power
  • 11 The Bajpai Years in the MEA
  • 12 Bajpai's heirs
  • 13 Conclusion.

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