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Reminder: This evening 7 Febrauary 5 pm Jawahar Bhawan: Nehru's Bandung; Please come
On behalf of Nehru Dialogues and Speaking Tiger Books, we are delighted to invite you to the launch of Nehru's Bandung: Non-Alignment and Regional Order in Indian Cold War Strategy by Andrea Benvenuti on Friday, 7 February 2025 at 5.30 pm at Seminar Room, Jawahar Bhawan, New Delhi.
Political scientists Rityusha Mani Tiwary and Dr Deepak Kumar Bhaskar will be in conversation with the author.
*Please join us for tea at 5 pm, and kindly RSVP by responding to this email.
Warm wishes,
Tanu
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THE BOOK
This book sheds light on a neglected aspect of India’s Cold War diplomacy, starting with the role of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his Congress government in organising the first Asian-African Conference in Bandung in April 1955. Andrea Benvenuti shows how, in the early Cold War, Nehru seized the opportunity accorded by the conference to transcend growing international tensions and pursue an alternative vision: a neutralised Asian ‘area of peace’, underpinned by a code of conduct based on the five principles of peaceful coexistence.
Relying on Indian, Western and Chinese archival sources, Nehru’s Bandung focuses on the policy concerns and calculations, as well as the international factors, that drove a sceptical Nehru to support Indonesia’s diplomatic push for such a gathering. It reveals how, in Nehru’s estimation, Bandung also served a further important purpose—securing China’s commitment to peaceful coexistence, without which stability in Asia would be illusory.
Nehru’s support for an Asian-African conference did not derive from an emotional commitment to Afro-Asian internationalism. Instead, it stemmed from a desire to promote a ‘third way’ in an increasingly polarised world, and to forge a stable regional order—one that would enhance India’s external security and domestic prosperity.
This is an essential book for anyone interested in Independent India’s foreign policy, the history of the Non-Aligned Movement, and also the history of India-China relations.
Relying on Indian, Western and Chinese archival sources, Nehru’s Bandung focuses on the policy concerns and calculations, as well as the international factors, that drove a sceptical Nehru to support Indonesia’s diplomatic push for such a gathering. It reveals how, in Nehru’s estimation, Bandung also served a further important purpose—securing China’s commitment to peaceful coexistence, without which stability in Asia would be illusory.
Nehru’s support for an Asian-African conference did not derive from an emotional commitment to Afro-Asian internationalism. Instead, it stemmed from a desire to promote a ‘third way’ in an increasingly polarised world, and to forge a stable regional order—one that would enhance India’s external security and domestic prosperity.
This is an essential book for anyone interested in Independent India’s foreign policy, the history of the Non-Aligned Movement, and also the history of India-China relations.
THE AUTHOR
Andrea Benvenuti is Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations at the University of New South Wales, teaching twentieth-century international history at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He holds a DPhil in International Relations from the University of Oxford. His current research focuses on the Cold War in Asia.Best,
Tanu Dogra
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