Louis Fischer and India, 1947–1964: Gandhi’s Disciple, Nehru’s Bête Noire?
This article focuses on the shift in the attitude of the liberal American journalist Louis Fischer to India. It contrasts Fischer’s admiration of Mahatma Gandhi and his support for Indian independence, expressed vociferously and prolifically in the period 1942-47, with Fischer’s criticisms and eventual opposition to the personality and foreign policy of Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister. Going beyond Fischer’s reputation as a “friend of India” earned through his works on Gandhi and his efforts for Indian independence, thus far considered as the only important prisms to study his views on India, this treatment of Fischer situates his criticism of Nehru within his personal development as an anti-communist in the late 1940s and 1950s. This shift in Fischer’s attitude from Gandhi to Nehru provides an interesting personal sidelight to the intergovernmental relations between India and America in that period.
The Eagle and the Peacock: U.S. Foreign Policy Toward India Since Independence
Preface Introduction Laying The Foundation: Anglo-American Competition and Indian Freedom Confronting Turbulent India: Truman and the Indian Famine of 1946 The Quest for Commerce, Peace and Prosperity: Truman's Point Four, Mutual Security and the Grain Deal of 1951 The Nationalist Challenge: Indian Nonalignment and Indo-American Conflicts The End of Optimism: Cold War Comes to South Asia Confrontation to Collaboration: United States-Pakistan Military Alliance, Trade and Aid to India Promise Fulfilled: The New Frontier, Kennedy, Johnson and India The Limits of Power: The Nixon and Indira Gandhi Challenges Principled Pragmatism: Carter, Human Rights and Indo-American Relations Conservative Pragmatism: Reagan and India Conclusion Selected Bibliography Index
The Exile Mission: The Polish Political Diaspora and Polish Americans, 1939–1956
Considering the two distinct Polish immigrant groups after World War II - the Polish-American descendants of pre-war ecomomic migrants and polish refugees fleeing communism - this study explores the uneasy challenge to reconcile concepts of responsibility toward their homeland.