Nehru's first recruits: The diplomats who built independent India's foreign policy

By:

Bhattacherjee, Kallol

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Gurugram: HarperCollins Publishers, 2024.Description: xviii, 349p., note., ind., 22 cm X 14 cmISBN:

9789356997516

Subject(s):

-- Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964 -- Diplomats -- India -- History--20th century -- Foreign relations-1947-1984

DDC classification:

327.54

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	KEIC	327.54 BHA (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Checked out	08/29/2025	23859

Recommended by: Rasananda Panda

Content:

Introduction: Finding the first recruits
1. Military men, radio announcers, ICS officers
2. A friendship and a catalogue
3. 'Everyone's trying to make sense'
4. The outsider becomes an insider: The career of an IFS topper
5. Raj: The envoy for 'little nations'
6. Videsh Mantralaya: The man behind the term
7. The first evacuation of Indians in a foreign crisis
8. 'Wilfred must go'
9. Rebels and princes
10. The first women recruits: Leilamani and Vijaya Lakshmi
11. From Hanumannagar to Tashkent: Chandra Shekhar Jha
12. Mirza Rashid Ali Baig: The protocol chief who made all the difference

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