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India's Foreign Policies Since Independence: Volume 1, 1945-1989, by Srinath Raghavan. This is a comprehensive and in-depth look at India's relationships with the rest of the world from independence up to 1989 when India was accepted into the United Nations. The book includes many different areas such as economic ties between nations and personal diplomatic interactions between people in India and abroad. This post will demonstrate how this book is well worth diving into if you feel like you need a better understanding of world events in general and Indian history specifically. VPDUTT, the author of this book, is an Indian historian and writer. He is a Distinguished Fellow and Head of Strategic Studies Programme at the Centre for Policy Research (India). He has written several books such as India's Foreign Policy: The First Phase 1947-1972 and India's Foreign Policy: The Years of Indira Gandhi 1971-1984. Raghavan provides a detailed analysis of all aspects of India's foreign policy from independence to 1989. He has done this by using an extremely large array of sources, both official and personal with interviews conducted by him as well as with other interviewers. He also provided a background on many of the people and events of India's government and society during this period, especially with regards to foreign policy. Another aspect of the book that I found intriguing was all of the information given about events such as the trial and death of Gandhi. Raghavan provides a detailed account on how this event occurred and what led up to it. This is one complex chapter that moves between several different parts of India. It gives a good look at how Gandhi always placed his main focus on Indian independence before all else, even if it meant endangering his own life in order to achieve such goals. The book is also filled with many, many different interviews. This section gives a lot of insight into the various people that Raghavan talked with about their views on India's foreign policy. It was interesting to see all of the different ways that people thought India should go about making its foreign policy choices. This book is essentially divided into two major sections - the first being American foreign-policy relationships with India from independence until 1973, and the second being Indian foreign-policy relationships with other nations up until 1989/1990. Raghavan leads off this section with an account of Roosevelt's famous "Hundred Days" which occurred just after WWII ended in 1945. During this time, the leaders of America and Britain tried to determine which countries would receive what kind of protection and aid. This led to quite a few violent conflicts as the two sides fought over which countries should be given what. Raghavan then moves on to discuss how India's relationship with Pakistan began even before partition. Pakistan was fighting for its own independence and an end to British colonisation in the region. By 1947, the British had begun leaving and it was clear that this was going to create a massive problem for India; they needed allies that could provide both security and support in times of war. cfa1e77820
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