This monograph seeks to analyse, in brief, the developments that took place in India’s relations with the USSR during 1972-91, the period which coincided with the emergence of Bangladesh as an independent country and the tragic death of Rajiv Gandhi. It was during this period that India’s first nuclear experiment was conducted giving rise to various reactions most of which expressed concern at India’s growing status as a new power in Asia. Two events, the Afghan crisis which continued to keep the peace in the region disturbed for about a decade and the disintegration of the Soviet Union which incidentally followed in the wake of the Afghan crisis, have been given detailed treatment. This would enable the readers to have a proper understanding of how India was going to fare in the context of new world order that was in the offing.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Shri Ram Sharma
Dr. Shri Ram Sharma, Professor of Political Science (Retd.) Gwalior is an alumnus of London School of Economics and Political Science where as a regular student in the Department of International Relations he creditably completed his doctoral dissertation. In the country he will be remembered for having launched a pioneer project of annual survey series on Indian Foreign Policy in which he has brought out single handed a set of twelve volumes one for each year from 1971 to 1982. He stopped the series with the latter year as some department of Jawaharlal Nehru University had adopted this project, though in a compilation form. Even they have stopped it after publishing a few volumes. The analytical survey of Bangladesh crisis as a crucial issue in Indian Foreign Policy, the second part of the first volume in the annual survey series, was published as an independent volume. His books, Gandhi – the Man, and Freedom Movement 1857 to 1947 mainly addressed to the young generation would continue to serve as a source of inspiration to the teenagers. His new ventures are: three monographs, each dealing with India’s relations with USA, USSR and China from 1947 to 1971 and Lal Bahadur Shastri: an era of transition in Indian Foreign Policy 1964-66. In his efforts to up date the previous set of these monographs, he has brought out the second part of the set covering the years 1972-91. The third and final part of the series is under active preparation along with another project which seeks to analyse the ideological dimensions of Indian Foreign Policy.
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