India in the Mirror of Foreign Diplomatic Archives

CONTENTS

Introduction
Gilles Boquerat & Max-Jean Zins

France's Political Interaction with India through the Quai d'Orsay Archives (1947-1972)
Gilles Boquerat

America Meets India: Jawaharlal Nehru through the Eyes of US Officials
Denis Kux

The Soviet Perception of India's Foreign Policy in the 1940s-1950s
Sergey Lounev

Cold War in South Asia: A Look at the British Archives on India, 1947-1971
Max-Jean Zins

The Chinese Factor in the American Policy towards India: Some Clues from the US Archives
Max-Jean Zins


This book proceeds from the co-existence of Indian secrecy over its diplomatic records that stifles academic inquiry and the release of significant materials from foreign archives which offers the fascinating possibility of understanding India's external policy through the primary sources of others. Words written by the American, British, French and Soviet diplomats does not just chronicle a quarter century of international politics, it also helps to understand the driving themes of the bilateral relations, the respective expectations and the way India tried to pursue its national interest during the Cold War.

Contributions: France's Political Interaction with India through the Quai d'Orsay archives (1947-1972) - Gilles Boquérat / America Meets India: Jawaharlal Nehru through the eyes of US Officials - Dennis Kux / The Soviet Perception of India's Foreign Policy in the 1940s-1950s - Sergey Lounev / Cold War in South Asia: A Look at the British Archives on India, 1947-1971 - Max-Jean Zins / The Chinese Factor in the American Policy towards India: Some Clues from the US Archives - Max-Jean Zins.