India and Afro-Asian Independence

Eradication of colonialism has been a major tenet of India’s foreign policy. Months before India became independent, Jawaharlal Nehru announced that India would support freedom struggles throughout the world. He lost no time convening a Conference in New Delhi on the question of Indonesian independence and raised this matter in the U.N. Security Council. From the very beginning, India took bold initiatives in the United Nations and played a leading role on a variety of issues relating to Afro-Asian independence. This book deals entirely with India’s role in the United Nations on Colonial question of concern to Asia and Africa. The subject covered include Indonesian independence, West Irian, Tunisia Morocco, Algeria, Aden and South Arabia, Spanish Sahara, Libya, Somalia, Namibia, Zimbabwe, goa, Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bisau, and the U.N. supervised independence to Togoland, Cameroons and other trust territories. This is probably the only book that provides a complete account of this vital part of India’s diplomacy at the United Nations.