Nehru - Benjamin Zachariah

things to come in India. The influence can be read in his public state- ments: from an initial endorsement of the moderate and c ...

become increasingly distanced from her husband, Feroze, but remained married to him until his death in 1960; Nehru had disapprov ...

in Kerala was considered a culmination of that trend. In 1959, the Congress’s Nagpur Resolution on cooperative farming – albeit ...

and greeted with anguished messages from Eisenhower and Khrushchev that extolled his virtues and declared his indispensability f ...

Intelligence Bureau from 1950 to the year of Nehru’s death, 1964. Mullik was an advocate of alignment with the USA in the Cold W ...

THE ‘NATION’ AND THE CHINESE SHADOW: DISPUTE, WAR, CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES The skirmishes with China were a long-standing result ...

Then there was Tibet. Much of the disputed border was actually one between India and ‘the Tibet region of China’: Chinese govern ...

as the conference progressed through late 1913 to 1914. Later British claims to the ‘Tawang Tract’, a sliver of territory then a ...

borders were not yet clear and that they had to be determined in discus- sion with its neighbours. Part of his diplomacy was to ...

are conflicting accounts), it would be fair to say that Aksai Chin was not a necessary part of Indian territory. But the Governm ...

1959, marked the first clash of border forces – Indians usually had the worst of these encounters. From late 1959, China dominat ...

On September 8, 1959, Zhou Enlai wrote to Nehru, explaining his position: no border, western or eastern, had ever been delimited ...

‘He did not say it to our face but as soon as we had left he attacked the Chinese government as aggressors. That is not an attit ...

game of chess’.^19 An ill-equipped and poorly-funded army – raising the military budget was opposed even by those in the Lok Sab ...

of the PSP, working closely with Masani through the Congress for Cultural Freedom, remaining ambiguous, this was a disturbing tr ...

past, but this time it did not. During the conflict, the non-aligned movement did not particularly back India – only Ethiopia an ...

of the Cuban revolution in 1959; his support for the Algerian freedom movement, the Congolese and Angolan people; his liberation ...

was meant as a punitive expedition, not an invasion. On November 21, Zhou Enlai announced the details: a 20-kilometre withdrawal ...

Mukerjee’s spirited defence of Nehru in the Lok Sabha and his profession of loyalty and patriotism had been one of the central f ...

of these had taken a battering as a result of his reluctance to translate his misgivings into action. Nehru operated through a c ...