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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458594803321

Autore

Kumaraswamy P. R

Titolo

India's Israel policy [[electronic resource] /] / P.R. Kumaraswamy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Columbia University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-280-59904-9

9786613628879

0-231-52548-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Disciplina

327.5405694

Soggetti

Religion and politics - India - History - 20th century

Arab-Israeli conflict - Influence

Electronic books.

India Foreign relations Israel

Israel Foreign relations India

India Foreign relations 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Mahatma Gandhi and the Jewish National Home -- 3 The Congress Party and the Yishuv -- 4 The Islamic Prism. The INC Versus the Muslim League -- 5 India, UNSCOP, and the Partition of Palestine -- 6 Recognition Without Relations -- 7 Domestic Politics -- 8 International Factors -- 9 Nehru and the Era of Deterioration, 1947-1964 -- 10 The Years of Hardened Hostility, 1964-1984 -- 11 Prelude to Normalization -- 12 Normalization and After -- 13 Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

India's foreign policy toward Israel is a subject of deep dispute. Throughout the twentieth century arguments have raged over the Palestinian problem and the future of bilateral relations. Yet no text comprehensively looks at the attitudes and policies of India toward Israel, especially their development in conjunction with history.P. R. Kumaraswamy is the first to account for India's Israel policy, revealing surprising inconsistencies in positions taken by the country's leaders,



such as Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, and tracing the crackling tensions between its professed values and realpolitik. Kumaraswamy's findings debunk the belief that India possesses a homogenous policy toward the Middle East. In fact, since the early days of independence, many within India have supported and pursued relations with Israel. Using material derived from archives in both India and Israel, Kumaraswamy investigates the factors that have hindered relations between these two countries despite their numerous commonalities. He also considers how India destabilized relations, the actions that were necessary for normalization to occur, and the directions bilateral relations may take in the future. In his most provocative argument, Kumaraswamy underscores the disproportionate affect of anticolonial sentiments and the Muslim minority on shaping Indian policy.