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“amit das gupta”

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  • The Indian Civil Service and Indian Foreign Policy, 1923–1961

    by Amit Das Gupta ...
    This book provides an authoritative account of the first significant overseas diplomatic missions and forays made by Indian civil servants. It recounts the key events in the formative decades of Indian foreign policy and looks at the prominent figures who were at the centre of this decisive period of change.The book explores the history and evolution of the civil and foreign services in India ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • From Superpower to Besieged Global Power

    Restoring World Order after the Failure of the Bush Doctrine

    by Badredine Arfi, Gülnur Aybet, Davis Bobrow, Kevin Dunn, Jacob English, Trine Flockhart, Maria Freire, Amit Das Gupta, Monica Hirst, Remonda Kleinberg, Joseph Liow, Li Mingjiang, Patrick M. Morgan, See Seng Tan ...
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    The essays in this volume argue that the Bush Doctrine, as outlined in the September 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States, squandered enormous military and economic resources, diminished American power, and undermined America’s moral reputation as a defender of democratic values and human rights. The Bush Doctrine misguidedly assumed that the United States was a superpower, a ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Interrogating Marginalities across Disciplinary Boundaries

    Colonial and Post-Colonial India

    Edited by Anna Bochkovskaya, Sanjukta Das Gupta, Amit Prakash ...
    This volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to rethink the multiple dimensions of marginality – political, societal, economic, cultural, legal and spatial. It explores their new representations in colonial and post-colonial India. Departing from extant analyses of experiences of marginalization in diverse social groups, it proposes to problematize the conceptualization of marginality, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Sino-Indian War of 1962

    New perspectives

    Edited by Amit R. Das Gupta, Lorenz M. Lüthi ...
    The Sino-Indian border war of 1962 forms a major landmark in South Asian, Asian and Cold War history. Among others, it resulted in an unresolved conflict permanently hindering rapprochement between China and India, the establishment of the Sino-Pakistani axis, the deepening of the Sino-Soviet split and had a lasting impact on Indian domestic affairs.This volume draws on new documentary evidence to ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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