02508    a2200169   4500999001700000020001800017082002100035100002300056245008600079260003500165300002200200504002500222520182000247650008402067942001202151952017502163  c26561d26561  a9780197527160  a327.54073bFRA-W  aFrankel, Francine   aWhen Nehru Looked East b: Origins Of India-Us Suspicion And India -China Rivalry  bOxford University Press,c2020  a360,ppb235x156mm  aInclude Bibliography  aJawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister and Minister of External Affairs from 1947 to 1964, set the framework of foreign policy which has remained India's reference point until the present. One of the most significant leaders of the twentieth century, Nehru came to power in the early years of the Cold War, determined to assert independent India's influence and interests in Asia and beyond. Drawing on the Nehru Papers, Francine Frankel's When Nehru Looked East reinterprets the doctrine of non-alignment with which Nehru is most closely identified to reveal its strategic purpose. Analyzing India-US and India-China relations during this period, Frankel explains how these parties came to distrust each other. From the outset, Nehru's vision of India's destiny as a great power collided with that of the US as leader and protector of the free world. He considered the US a rival in South and Southeast Asia and the Middle East and carried out an active diplomacy to dissuade newly independent nations from joining US-led anti-communist mutual security alliances and instead follow India's example of non-alignment. He did not see a threat from the Soviet Union and believed, despite the dispute with China over the northern border, that India's approach would bring India and China together as advocates of Asianism to counter American penetration in the region. This historic miscalculation, manifested in the 1962 China-India War, overthrew the pillars of Nehru's foreign policy. Frankel provides the most authoritative account yet of the origins of India-US suspicions and India-China rivalries. Outlasting the Cold War, Nehru's worldview lived on in the mindset of successor generations, making it difficult for the US and India to form a strategic partnership and establish a natural balance in Asia.  aDiplomatic relationsvNehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964zIndiazUnited StateszChina  2ddccBK  00104070aNASSDOCbNASSDOCd2021-02-12eOverseas Press India Private Limitedg726.35i2021-01-27l0o327.54073 FRA-Wp51283r2021-02-12 00:00:00v995.00w2021-02-12yBK