India and the Cold War

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2019
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-5116-3 (ISBN)

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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.

Manu Bhagavan is professor of history and human rights at Hunter College and the Graduate Center—The City University of New York.

Erscheinungsdatum	31.08.2019
Reihe/Serie	The New Cold War History
Zusatzinfo	11 halftones
Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4696-5116-5 / 1469651165
ISBN-13	978-1-4696-5116-3 / 9781469651163
Zustand	Neuware