influenced anyone’s political opinions. See also Margery Sabin, Dissenters
and Mavericks(Oxford University Press, 2002), Chapter 6: ‘The Politics of
Cultural Freedom: India in the 1950s’. On the more directly political activities
of the CIA in India, and on Tibet and Indo-Chinese relations, see Tsering
Shakya, The Dragon in the Land of Snows(Penguin, 2000) and Neville
Maxwell, India’s China War(Cape, 1970). See also Bertrand Russell, Unarmed
Victory(Penguin, 1963).
A number of the above works do not deal centrally with Nehru at all; but
since Nehru was so central to the period under discussion, they have a
strong bearing on understanding Nehru and Nehruvianism. They are also
not necessarily in accord with the views expressed in this book, and are
merely a representative sample drawn from a complex and extremely
voluminous literature that in many of its aspects appears now to be in urgent
need of revision.286 FURTHER READING