index 359
euphemism for Muslim appeasement
by Jan Sangh Party, 159; and India’s
justifi cations for nonrelations, 125,
139– 41; India’s secular façade exposed
by Rabat conference gate- crashing,
153, 212, 214; and Indo- Pakistan
rivalry, 168; marginalization of
Nasser’s secular nationalism, 211;
nonsecular character of Middle
Eastern countries ignored by India,
300n2; nonsecular considerations as
taboo subjects, 68, 140, 157, 266;
secularization of Congress Party’s
Middle East policy, 16
security issues: and India’s
diff erentiation of bilateral interests
from diff erences over peace pro cess,
249; intelligence cooperation with
Israel, 241– 42, 319n12; post- 1992
defense ties, 256– 58; and Rao’s
decision on normalization, 241
Seri, Immanuel, 130
Setalvad, M. C., 188
Shahak, Amnon- Lipkin, 322n62
Shamir, Yitzhak, 228
Sharett, Moshe (Moshe Shertok), 27, 31,
33, 34, 57, 109– 11, 114, 135, 194
Sharon, Ariel, 156, 252– 53, 261– 63, 272
Shastri, Lal Bahadur, 177, 201– 2, 203
Shazar, Zalman, 203– 4
al- Sheikh, Khalid, 263, 322n69
Shekhar, Chandra, 235
Shekhawat, Bhairon Singh, 253
Shertok, Moshe. See Sharett, Moshe
Shimoni, Gideon, 27, 31, 35, 41, 62,
128– 29
Shimoni, Ya’acov, 185, 186, 308n5
Shohet, A. E., 33, 35
Sikhs, 158– 59
Silverman, Sidney, 27, 34, 38
Singh, Arjun, 155, 244
Singh, Dinesh, 125, 131, 178, 204, 210
Singh, Gurbachan, 212
Singh, Jaswant, 155, 321n42
Singh, Manmohan, 156, 252, 263, 319n2refugees, Jewish: and the U.S., 282n43.
See also Jewish refugees in India
refugees, Palestinian, 179, 191, 307n73,
310n49
Reid, Escott, 197
religion: Israel’s self- defi nition as
Jewish state, 8– 9; Jews’ religious
justifi cations for rights to Palestine
not taken into account, 146; Nehru’s
views of, 144; nonsecular character
of Middle Eastern countries
ignored by India, 300n2; Pakistan
and Israel as ideological states,
298n109; religious justifi cation of
Islamic right to Palestine, 72, 146
(see also Jazirat al- Arab); religious
justifi cation of Jewish right to
Palestine, 38, 42. See also Hindu
population of India; Islamic prism;
Judaism; Muslim population of
India; secularism
Rikhye, Inder Jit, 207– 9
Roy, M. N., 51, 127
Sachar, Vijay, 209
Sadat, Anwar, 218
Samajwadi Party (SP), 254
Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP), 158
Sasson, Eliahu, 133, 134, 147– 48, 170
Saudi Arabia: absence from Asian
Relations Conference of 1947, 184;
and al- Aqsa mosque attack of 1969,
211; Indian workforce in, 173; and
India’s concerns over hajj
pilgrimages, 153; India’s desire to
maintain good relations with, 152– 53;
India’s improved relations with, 272;
and invasion of Kuwait, 240;
reaction to India’s normalization of
relations with Israel, 261
secularism, 8– 9; and al- Aqsa mosque
attack of 1969, 211; Azad as advisor
on “Arab” rather than “Muslim”
aff airs, 147; and Bharatiya Janata
Party, 304n15; criticized as