When Nehru Looked East - Francine (Professor of Political Science and Founding Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India Frankel - Bog

This is the first analysis of India-U.S. foreign policy during the formative period of their relations to be able to use the Nehru Papers, the seminal source for understanding the worldview of India's first Prime Minister and Minister of External Affairs, 1947-1964. Nehru established the twin pillars of Non-Alignment and Asianism as the foundation of India's foreign policy. Read alongside declassified U.S. documents and available declassified Chinese documents, they
provide the foundational understanding of U.S.-India suspicion and India-China rivalry.