340 i n d e x
265; meeting with Israeli diplomat
in Turkey, 133; reasons for stance, 19,
146, 149, 168; and Sasson,
147– 48; and secularism, 140, 147;
and Weizmann, 63Babri Mosque, 269, 271
Baig, Mirza Rashid A., 129
Bajpai, G. S., 132, 165
Balfour Declaration (1917), 54, 291n65;
British dilemma over promises
to Sharif Hussein vs. pledges to
Zionists, 86; and consequences of
small size of Jewish population in
Palestine, 40; Gandhi’s repudiation
of, 28– 29; Muslim League objections
to, 55, 74– 75; Nehru on, 48; Rahman
on, 99– 100; and White Paper of
1939, 78, 279n55, 320n36; and
Zionist position in World War II,
279n55, 320n36; and Zionists’
concerns about Indian Muslims, 80
Bandung Afro- Asian conference of
1955, 124; background of, 190;
debate over Israeli participation,
191– 92; Israeli participation vetoed,
18, 124, 164, 174; and Kashmir
confl ict, 168; and Pakistan, 170,
193– 95; reasons for India’s position
on, 193– 95; reasons for Israel’s
exclusion, 192– 93; and subsequent
institutionalization of exclusion of
Israel from international
conferences, 190– 96
Bangladesh, 14, 117, 143, 276n22,
287n41. See also Indo- Pakistani war
of 1971
Basu, Iyoti, 253
Baxter, Craig, 207
Becher, Giora, 130, 228, 236
Begin, Menachem, 86
Ben- Gurion, David: and Cold War, 9;
on delayed normalization, 123; on
indiff erence to Asia in po liti cal
calculations, 56, 195– 96; meetingArab- Islamic infl uences on India. See
Islamic prism; Middle East and Arab
countries; Muslim population of
India
Arab- Israeli war of 1948, 8, 179– 80,
291n60
Arab League: and All- Palestine
Government, 121; and Arab states’
refusal to host international
conferences in which Israel could
participate, 192– 93; Egypt
readmitted, 226; Egypt suspended
from, 219, 232; and origins of
Israel’s institutionalized isolation,
8; and PLO, 216; representative at
Asian Relations Conference of 1947,
184– 85; and Shastri administration,
202
Arab Revolt (1936– 1939), 33, 39, 45,
74– 75, 81, 285n4
Arafat, Yasser, 22, 121, 178, 216, 262,
321n42; as head of state of Palestine,
233, 237, 247; and Jawaharlal
Nehru Award for International
Understanding, 234, 318n40;
and Rao, 237, 250; and shift in
Palestinian issue to po liti cal liability
following Kuwait invasion, 240,
244– 45; and weakening Islamic
opposition to dealing with Israel,
- See also al- Fatah; Palestine
Liberation Or ga ni za tion
Aran, Yair, 130
Armon, Shlomo, 130
Asian Games (1982), 223
Asian Relations Conference of 1947, 33,
35– 36, 81, 183– 90
al- Assad, Hafez, 220, 227
Ataturk, Mustafa Kemal, 75
athletics, 217, 223, 226, 230– 31, 317n23
Azad, Ghulam Nabi, 156
Azad, Maulana Abul Kalam, 16, 145– 50;
background of, 146– 47; as INC
president, 79; infl uence in deferring
normalization, 18– 19, 145– 50, 168,