India\'s Israel Policy - P. R. Kumaraswamy

p.r kumaraswamy is professor of Middle Eastern Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru Uni- versity in New Delhi and a former research fello ...

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india’s israel policy P. R. Kumaraswamy Columbia University Press New York ...

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Contents Introduction Ac know ledg ments ix Mahatma Gandhi and the Jewish National Home The Congress Party and the Yi ...

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1. Introduction Ac know ledg ments ix “I have nothing to lose except my obscurity.” That was the only answer of mine that would ...

x ac know ledg ments Desai, the former prime minister. Starting from my fi rst meeting in July 1988, the late Walter Eytan spent ...

ac know ledg ments xi Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jeru- salem, especially Amnon, Avi, Cec ...

xii a c k n o w l e d g ments Ever since I fi rst met her in Jerusalem in the summer of 1988, my wife Lin Qian has happily endur ...

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1 Introduction When it comes to the Jews, Israel, and the wider Middle East, even Mahatma Gandhi is not infallible. At one level ...

2 introduction so despite India being free of any forms of anti- Semitism and remaining friendly toward the Jewish people since ...

introduction 3 January 1992 that one can speak of “relations” and debate the infl uence of one upon the foreign- policy interest ...

4 introduction securing employment for some of these refugees. At the end of the World War II, India became a safe haven for Jew ...

be more sympathetic toward Zionist aspirations in Palestine. A few years later, he even lamented India’s belated recognition of ...