The development of the Indian outlook on world affairs before 1947

Mehrotra, S. R.

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“…44 The same is true for the contribution of S. R. Mehrotra. 45 A. Appadorai even falsely holds that 'the exclusion of Indians from the decision-making process in India's foreign policy before the country achieved independence' was a feature of the interwar years. 46 Only recently, Vineet Thakur has published on the first politician-diplomats, all moderates, whose general role has been researched in detail by B. R. Nanda.…”

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Gupta¹

2020

The Indian Civil Service and Indian Foreign Policy, 1923–1961

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Imagining Asia in India: Nationalism and Internationalism (ca. 1905–1940)

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2012

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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Asianisms, that is, discourses and ideologies claiming that Asia can be defined and understood as a homogenous space with shared and clearly defined characteristics, have become the subject of increased scholarly attention over the last two decades. The focal points of interest, however, are generally East Asian varieties of regionalism. That “the cult of Asianism” has played an important role on the Indian subcontinent, too—as is evident from the quote above—is less understood. Aside from two descriptive monographs dating back to the 1970s, there has been relatively little scholarly engagement with this phenomenon. In this article, we would like to offer an overview of several distinct concepts of Asia and pan-Asian designs, which featured prominently in both political and civil society debates in India during the struggle for Independence. Considering the abundance of initiatives for Asian unification, and, in a more abstract sense, discourses on Asian identity, what follows here is necessarily a selection of discourses, three of which will be subjected to critical analysis, with the following questions in mind:•What were the concrete motives of regional—in this case Indian—actors to appropriate the concept of Asianism? Is the popularity of supranational frames of reference solely to be explained as an affirmation of a distinctive identity vis-à-vis the imagined powerful West, or are there other motives to be found?•What were the results of these processes of appropriation, and how were these manifested politically and culturally?•What tensions resulted from the simultaneous existence of various nationalisms in Asia on the one hand and macro-nationalistic pan-Asianism on the other?

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The inception of Indian foreign policy: The non‐Nehru contribution

Keenleyside

1981

South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies

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The development of the Indian outlook on world affairs before 1947

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