index 361
General Assembly, 86– 93; unitary
Palestinian state idea, 96– 97, 104– 5.
See also UN Special Committee on
Palestine
UN partition plan: approval of, 104– 7;
Arab rejection of, 7; countries
endorsing/rejecting, 56; and
demographics, 291n60; India’s
federal plan as alternative to, 85;
India’s objections to majority plan,
98– 100, 265, 293n93; negotiations
leading to, 85– 107; and territorial
limits of Israel, 179– 80; violence
following partition, 106
UN Resolution 194, 310n49
UNSCOP. See UN Special Committee
on Palestine
UN Security Council Resolution 242,
218
UN Special Committee on Palestine
(UNSCOP), 85; Abdur Rahman as
India’s representative, 92– 97, 145;
composition of committee, 89,
91– 92; election of India to, 59;
India’s objections to UNSCOP visit
to displaced- persons camps in
Eu rope, 52, 88, 288n16; recognition
that Arab- Jewish cooperation was
impossible, 101; report of, 97– 98
untouchables, 28
UPA government, 160, 254, 263Vajpayee, Atal Behari, 141, 160, 218, 251
Venkataraman, R., 235
visas, denied to Israeli passport holders,
217, 223, 226; changes in policy, 231
“vote- bank politics,” 140, 157Weizmann, Chaim, 32– 34, 59, 62– 64,
66– 67, 119
Weizmann, Ezer, 221, 250, 254
West Bank, 120– 21, 180
White Paper of 1939, 78, 279n55, 320n36
Wittkowski, Margarete, 204
World Bank, 239PLO granted observer status, 216;
pressure on India, 226– 27;
procedures and rules for determining
membership, 189; repeal of UN
Resolution 3379, 236. See also UN
negotiations on the creation of Israel
United Nations Emergency Force
(UNEF), 198, 204– 5, 207– 9
United States: and collapse of the Soviet
Union, 239; improved relations with
India under Rao, 239, 258, 270– 71;
and India’s economic development,
21; and Jewish refugees, 282n43; lack
of po liti cal opposition to pro- Israeli
stance, 16; pro- Israeli gestures made
by states wishing to improve U.S.
relations, 258; Rajiv Gandhi’s
meetings with U.S. groups, 226– 28;
and recognition of Israel, 119; role of
Muslim population compared to role
of U.S. Jews in infl uencing U.S.’s
Israel policies, 16– 17, 55, 157; U.S.’s
pro- Pakistan slant as factor in India’s
pro- Soviet stance, 6; and Zionist
diplomacy, 57– 58
UN negotiations on the creation of
Israel, 85– 107; Asaf Ali as India’s
representative, 87– 93; approval of
partition plan, 104– 7; contrast
between partition and federal plan,
107; diff ering views of Rahman and
Nehru, 96– 97; federal plan, 85,
97– 104, 265; and immigration issue
(aliya), 97; India’s objections to
majority plan, 98– 100, 293n93;
India’s rejection of connection
between Palestine question and
displaced- person camps in Eu rope,
88– 89; last- minute attempt to bring
federal plan forward, 105; majority
plan, 98; Rau’s plan, 106; reasons for
failure of federal plan to gain
ac cep tance, 101– 4; selection of
fact- fi nding committee (UNSCOP),
91– 92; Special Session of the UN