Comrades at Odds explores the complicated Cold War relationship between the United States and the newly independent India of Jawaharlal Nehru from a unique perspective--that of culture, broadly defined. In a departure from the usual way of doing diplomatic history, Andrew J. Rotter chose culture as his jumping-off point because, he says, Like the rest of us, policymakers and diplomats do not shed their values, biases, and assumptions at their office doors. They are creatures of culture, and their attitudes cannot help but shape the policy they make. To define those attitudes, Rotter consults not only government documents and the memoirs of those involved in the events of the day, but also literature, art, and mass media. An advertisement, a photograph, a cartoon, a film, and a short story, he finds, tell us in their own ways about relations between nations as surely as a State Department memorandum does. While expanding knowledge about the creation and implementation of democracy, Rotter carries his analysis across the categories of race, class, gender, religion, and culturally infused practices of governance, strategy, and economics. Americans saw Indians as superstitious, unclean, treacherous, lazy, and prevaricating. Indians regarded Americans as arrogant, materialistic, uncouth, profane, and violent. Yet, in spite of these stereotypes, Rotter notes the mutual recognition of profound similarities between the two groups; they were indeed comrades at odds.
Mohammed Ayub Khan, Friends Not Masters: A Political Autobiography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967), 10. 9. See Rotter, Comrades at Odds, 150–87; quotation at pp. 170–1. Rotter, Comrades at Odds, 178. Nawaz, Crossed Swords, 30–2; ...
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Andrew J. Rotter, Comrades at Odds: The United States and India, 1947–1964 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000), 182–186. 47. Paper by the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, “United States Relations with South ...
Rotter, Comrades at Odds, p. 73. 17. Memorandum by Bowles, “Toward a Balance of Political and Military Forces in South Asia,” Nov. 12, 1963, POF, Box 118a, JFKL. Bowles had been an eager champion of U.S.-Indian cooperation for many ...
Midnight's Descendants: South Asia from Partition to the Present Day. London: William Collins, 2014. 17. Liechty, Mark. “Building the Road to Kathmandu: Notes on the History of Tourism in Nepal.” Himalaya 25, no.
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