This book proceeds from the co-existence of Indian secrecy over its diplomatic records that stifles academic inquiry and the release of significant materials from foreign archives which offers the fascinating possibility of understanding India’s external policy through the primary sources of others. Words written by the American, British, French and Soviet diplomats does not just chronicle a quarter century of international politics, it helps to understand the driving themes of the bilateral relations, the respective expectations and the way India tried to pursue its national interest during the Cold War.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Gilles Boquerat
Gilles Boquerat holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Sorbonne. He is currently Head of Department of International Relations at the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi. He is also a member of the Centre d’Etudes de I’Inde et de I’Asie du Sud (Centre for Indian and South Asian Studies), Paris. Dr. Boquerat has published a number of articles on India’s foreign policy in international journals as well as edited volumes. He is the co-editor of India in the Mirror of Foreign Diplomatic Archives (Manohar, 2003).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Max-Jean Zins
Max-Jean Zins is a senior researcher at the CNRS (Centre National De Ia Recherche Scientifique). He is Presently attached to the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, Paris, and is also a member of the Centre d’Etudes de I’Inde et de I’Asie du Sud, Paris. His latest book is titled Pakistan: The Quest for Identity (Paris; Belin-La Documentation Francaise, 2001). While working on this project, he had been associated with the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington.
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