Foreign policy annual

Foreign policy annual
Author: Mahendra Gaur
Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2007
Genre: India
ISBN: 9788178353425

(In Fourteen Volumes) Foreign Policy Annual is the first publication of its type that provides a reliable chronicle of events in contemporary Indian Foreign Policy on a day-to-day basis. It covers India s participation in the deliberations of international organizations, and relations with her neighbours, regional and super powers; also contains chronicle of world events in which India reacted in defence of its national interests. The events deal with India s political, economic and strategic relations as well as unofficial opinion on world affairs. During all these eventful years as an independent nation, there has been phenomenal growth in our foreign contacts so much so that diplomatic relations have been established with almost all the countries of the world. Besides as a member of hundreds of international organizations, India has to participate in their periodic deliberations. The VIP visits and those numerous other groups have become common occurrences of the day. Hardly any country has the opportunity to extend hospitality in one single year to so many distinguished visits which are not merely acts of diplomatic courtesy. Then due to the growth of the political consciousness among our people, interest in world developments has assumed a new dimension. Our countrymen have grown critical of our government s international activities than of its doings on the home front. The vigilant press kept watchful eye on every initiative that govt. took or the way it reacted to different issues that arose from time to time. All this underlines the very fact that in view of India s growing importance in world politics, its increasing activities in the international sphere need to be viewed and chronicled periodically. The publication as such was introduced first time in 2001 and it has been continuing pleased at its lofty and lasting utility proven to the Indian as well as people from the foreign lands. Published in two volumes every year, saliently featured, it contains the documents in the first volume while the events with all accuracy are chronicled in the second one. The events have taken place either on our own land or on the foreign. And the documents, really rare to the provision to the commonly reach of the people or organizations, will in actual sense be proved invaluable, at ease, and these comprise of various kinds of documents-such as, addresses, international reports, bilateral or multilateral treaties, conventions, international agreements etc. proving to be highly beneficial to the people having the characters, of economic, politic, sociatic , health and hygine, environment etc. This publication will certainly prove to be a storehouse for knowledge, information and reference in many measures. The people will find it an easy access to the things which earlier either swam in air or rested in the books of the higher offices, meaning thereby beyond the complete reach.

Gandhi Before India

Gandhi Before India
Author: Ramachandra Guha
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2014-04-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 038553230X

Here is the first volume of a magisterial biography of Mohandas Gandhi that gives us the most illuminating portrait we have had of the life, the work and the historical context of one of the most abidingly influential—and controversial—men in modern history. Ramachandra Guha—hailed by Time as “Indian democracy’s preeminent chronicler”—takes us from Gandhi’s birth in 1869 through his upbringing in Gujarat, his two years as a student in London and his two decades as a lawyer and community organizer in South Africa. Guha has uncovered myriad previously untapped documents, including private papers of Gandhi’s contemporaries and co-workers; contemporary newspapers and court documents; the writings of Gandhi’s children; and secret files kept by British Empire functionaries. Using this wealth of material in an exuberant, brilliantly nuanced and detailed narrative, Guha describes the social, political and personal worlds inside of which Gandhi began the journey that would earn him the honorific Mahatma: “Great Soul.” And, more clearly than ever before, he elucidates how Gandhi’s work in South Africa—far from being a mere prelude to his accomplishments in India—was profoundly influential in his evolution as a family man, political thinker, social reformer and, ultimately, beloved leader. In 1893, when Gandhi set sail for South Africa, he was a twenty-three-year-old lawyer who had failed to establish himself in India. In this remarkable biography, the author makes clear the fundamental ways in which Gandhi’s ideas were shaped before his return to India in 1915. It was during his years in England and South Africa, Guha shows us, that Gandhi came to understand the nature of imperialism and racism; and in South Africa that he forged the philosophy and techniques that would undermine and eventually overthrow the British Raj. Gandhi Before India gives us equally vivid portraits of the man and the world he lived in: a world of sharp contrasts among the coastal culture of his birthplace, High Victorian London, and colonial South Africa. It explores in abundant detail Gandhi’s experiments with dissident cults such as the Tolstoyans; his friendships with radical Jews, heterodox Christians and devout Muslims; his enmities and rivalries; and his often overlooked failures as a husband and father. It tells the dramatic, profoundly moving story of how Gandhi inspired the devotion of thousands of followers in South Africa as he mobilized a cross-class and inter-religious coalition, pledged to non-violence in their battle against a brutally racist regime. Researched with unequaled depth and breadth, and written with extraordinary grace and clarity, Gandhi Before India is, on every level, fully commensurate with its subject. It will radically alter our understanding and appreciation of twentieth-century India’s greatest man.

Coming Apart, Coming Together

Coming Apart, Coming Together
Author: Edward R. Kantowicz
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780802844569

An independent scholar and former history professor addresses the post-WWII period in Volume 2 of his narrative history of the 20th century. His account revolves around two dominant global events--the Cold War and the revolt against imperialism--showing how these events both drove nations apart while creating political and regional alliances. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR