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AdvancePraiseforIndiaandtheQuestforOneWorld With narrative verve and meticulous scholarship, Manu Bhagavan tells an important though underappreciated story. He paints a vivid group portrait of the first generation of modern Indian leaders and thinkers, illuminating how they drew from the ideals of their ancient civilization and their victo- rious struggle for independence the basis for their country’s foreign policy atapivotalmomentinworldhistory.–StrobeTalbott,President,Brookings Institution Apowerfulre-examinationofIndianconceptsofinternationalaffairsduring theeraofindependence.Bhagavanhaswrittenanoutstandingbook,which helps us understand not just India’s foreign policy, but also how concepts ofnon-alignmentandhumanrights—oftencreatedbyIndians—pointedtoa world beyond the Cold War. –Odd Arne Westad, author of The Global Cold WarandDirectorofIDEASatTheLondonSchoolofEconomics In today’s era where national self-interest reigns supreme, Professor Bhagavan’srevisitingofIndia’sfightforindependenceandtheformationof theUnitedNations,remindsusthatwhencollectivegoalsarealigned,much canbeaccomplished.IndiaandtheQuestforOneWorld isaneloquentstate- ment on how global peace can be achieved through a commitment to our interdependenceandaclearunderstandingthateveryone’sfreedomandpros- perityareinextricablylinked.Interwoveninthissmoothlyflowinghistorical analysisareinspirationalaccountsoftheinvaluablerolewomenplayinthe co-creationofapeacefulfuture.VijayaLakshmiPanditcourageouslyandtire- lesslylobbiedonbehalfofthosewithoutavoice,educatingtheworldabout theneedforaunifiedglobalgovernancethatprioritizedhumanrightsabove allelse.AndwhilewerememberEleanorRooseveltwell,wemustalsoremem- berthepivotalrolethatIndia’sHansaMehtaandMadamePanditplayedin the crafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights during the UN’s formativeyears.AsIndiaandtheQuestforOneWorldremindsus,India’svision was towards “world peace and the enlargement of human freedom.” How appealing yet distant this vision is today. Professor Bhagavan shows us a clearroadmapthatcanbetakenagainifweonlysochoose.–PamOmidyar, FounderandChairoftheBoard,HumanityUnited This riveting story recovers one of the most important moments in India’s relationshiptotheworldatlarge.Itcapturestheextraordinarypassionwith which a remarkable group of men and women dared to dream of “One World” founded on justice. It vividly describes how this high idealism was matchedbyanequallyadroitpoliticalrhetoricthatcatapultedIndiatomoral leadership. The book combines dramatic flair with rigorous and pathbreak- ing scholarship. It is a must read for anyone interested in India’s role in global affairs. –Pratap Bhanu Mehta, President and Chief Executive, Centre forPolicyResearch,NewDelhi In this vividly written page-turner, Manu Bhagavan recovers a moment of extraordinary possibilities...[and] renews the study of how human rights norms were put on paper, with great consequences for their revival today.–SamuelMoyn,authorofTheLastUtopia:HumanRightsinHistory India and the Quest for One World is a welcome and compelling challenge to sterile consensus about the kind of ideas that guide India’s world view. Bhagavan excavates the record of India’s formative years to reveal the extraordinary internationalism that guided the republic’s founding figures. Universalism and not narrowly constructed Third Worldism, Bhagavan demonstrates in this ground-breaking work, inspired India’s early interna- tionalengagement.ForGandhiandNehru,Bhagavanargues,thepursuitof oneworldandrespectforhumanrightswereintegraltotheconstructionof democraticIndia’sconceptofsovereignty.–C.RajaMohan,StrategicAffairs Editor,TheIndianExpress ManuBhagavanhaswrittenanimportantbookwhichdocumentsthecentral place of human rights as India achieved independence. Written with grace and verve, India and the Quest for One World is the inspiring story of how principles that gave birth to the Indian state animated its constructive role settingtheagendafortheUnitedNations.ThatOneWorldvisionhasyetto be realized but India’s leadership could once again move humanity toward a more just and peaceful condition. This is a book that should be required readingforallwhocareaboutthepotentialofIndiatoadvancehumanrights andinternationaljustice.–JonathanFanton,EmeritusChairoftheBoardof HumanRightsWatchandPresidentEmeritusoftheMacArthurFoundation ThisseminalbookupliftstheroleofoneofIndia’smostextraordinaryleaders, VijayaLakshmiPandit.ItisinvaluabletodiscoverthatIndia’sindependence, andindeedthefieldofhumanrights,owesanenormousdebttotheintrepid MadamePandit.Herboldleadership,augmentedbyunwaveringsupportfrom the NAACP in creating a new just world order, allows us to re-imagine the possibility of big dreams and new partnerships to build a better world in ourtime.–MallikaDutt,PresidentandChiefExecutive,Breakthrough(Bring HumanRightsHome) [O]riginal and elegant...truly mind-expanding and compelling. –Thomas G.Weiss,PresidentialProfessorandDirector,RalphBuncheInstitute,CUNY GraduateCenter Brilliantlyresearchedandvividlywritten,ManuBhagavan’sstudyofIndia’s roleintheongoingquestforhumanrightsisalife-enhancingbookurgently needednow.Filledwithnewinformationandstartlingsurprises,thissplendid bookhighlightstheoftenneglectedfifty-yearstruggleofGandhi,Nehruand hisvisionarypowerfulsister—VijayaLakshmiPandit—HansaMehta,andoth- ers,tolivein“largerfreedom”andpromoteafuturewithoutempire,poverty, exploitation or war. As we contemplate this moment of violent insanity on everycontinent,alternativepathstowardpeaceinaworldunitedforjustice arehereinprofoundlyilluminated.–BlancheWiesenCook,authorofEleanor Roosevelt,vols1–3 ManuBhagavan’scompellingnarrativeopensawindowtoamomentofgreat idealism....Thisisamajorcontribution...andawelcometonicforourmore fractiousandcynicaltimes.–EllenChesler,SeniorFellow,RooseveltInstitute ThePalgraveMacmillanTransnationalHistorySeries Series Editors: Akira Iriye, Professor of History at Harvard University and Rana Mitter, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the UniversityofOxford This distinguished series seeks to develop scholarship on the transnational connections of societies and peoples in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; provide a forum in which work on transnational history from differentperiods,subjects,andregionsoftheworldcanbebroughttogether infruitfulconnection;andexplorethetheoreticalandmethodologicallinks between transnational and other related approaches such as comparative historyandworldhistory. Editorial Board: Thomas Bender, University Professor of the Humanities, Professor of History, and Director of the International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University; Jane Carruthers, Professor of History, Univer- sityofSouthAfrica;MarianoPlotkin,Professor,UniversidadNacionaldeTres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, and member of the National Council of Scientific andTechnologicalResearch,Argentina;Pierre-YvesSaunier,Researcheratthe Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France and Visiting Professor attheUniversityofMontreal;IanTyrrell,ProfessorofHistory,Universityof NewSouthWales Titlesinclude: GregorBentonandEdmundTerenceGomez THECHINESEINBRITAIN,1800–PRESENT Economy,TransnationalismandIdentity ManuBhagavan INDIAANDTHEQUESTFORONEWORLD ThePeacemakers SugataBoseandKrisManjapra(editors) COSMOPOLITANTHOUGHTZONES SouthAsiaandtheGlobalCirculationofIdeas SebastianConradandDominicSachsenmaier(editors) COMPETINGVISIONSOFWORLDORDER GlobalMomentsandMovements,1880s–1930s MartinConwayandKiranKlausPatel(editors) EUROPEANIZATIONINTHETWENTIETHCENTURY HistoricalApproaches JoyDamousiandMarianoBenPlotkin(editors) THETRANSNATIONALUNCONSCIOUS EssaysintheHistoryofPsychoanalysisandTransnationalism DesleyDeacon,PennyRussellandAngelaWoollacott(editors) TRANSNATIONALLIVES BiographiesofGlobalModernity,1700–Present JonathanGantt IRISHTERRORISMINTHEATLANTICCOMMUNITY,1865–1922 AbigailGreenandVincentViaene(editors) RELIGIOUSINTERNATIONALSINTHEMODERNWORLD PerHögselius REDGAS RussiaandtheOriginsofEuropeanEnergyDependence EricHotta PAN-ASIANISMANDJAPAN’SWAR,1931–45 MartinKlimbeandJoachimScharloth(editors) 1968INEUROPE AHistoryofProtestandActivism,1956–77 ErikaKuhlman RECONSTRUCTINGPATRIARCHYAFTERTHEGREATWAR Women,GenderandPostwarReconciliationbetweenNations DeepKantaLahiriChoudhury TELEGRAPHICIMPERIALISM CrisisandPanicintheIndianEmpire,c.1830–1920 BruceMazlish THEIDEAOFHUMANITYINTHEGLOBALERA NicolaPizzolato CHALLENGINGGLOBALCAPITALISM LaborMigration,RadicalStruggle,andUrbanChangeinDetroitandTurin GlendaSluga THENATION,PSYCHOLOGY,ANDINTERNATIONALPOLITICS,1870–1919 GilesScott-Smith WESTERNANTI-COMMUNISMANDTHEINTERDOCNETWORK ColdWarInternationale MarkTilse TRANSNATIONALISMINTHEPRUSSIANEAST FromNationalConflicttoSynthesis,1871–1914 ThePalgraveMacmillanTransnationalHistorySeries SeriesStandingOrderISBN978–0–230–50746–3 Hardback978–0–230–50747–0Paperback (outsideNorthAmericaonly) Youcanreceivefuturetitlesinthisseriesastheyarepublishedbyplacinga standingorder.Pleasecontactyourbookselleror,incaseofdifficulty,writeto usattheaddressbelowwithyournameandaddress,thetitleoftheseriesand theISBNquotedabove. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke,HampshireRG216XS,England India and the Quest for One World The Peacemakers Manu Bhagavan ProfessorofHistory,HunterCollegeandtheGraduateCenter, TheCityUniversityofNewYork,USA ©ManuBhagavan2013 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 978-1-137-34982-8 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noportionofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, SaffronHouse,6–10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorizedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. Theauthorhasassertedhisrighttobeidentifiedastheauthorofthis workinaccordancewiththeCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. 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For Sree and Priyanka This page intentionally left blank Contents ListofIllustrations x SeriesEditors’Foreword xi Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvi TheCast xx Prologue 1 1 TheWorldatWar 5 2 IndiainNewYork 14 3 ShowdowninSanFrancisco 33 4 TheNewHope 50 5 IndiaInternational 75 6 TowardaBetterFuture 105 Epilogue 128 Afterword 137 Notes 142 Bibliography 178 Index 189 ix
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