Serving India : A Political Biography of Subimal Dutt (1903-1992), India's Longest Serving Foreign Secretary /
This is the first academic biography of Subimal Dutt, best known as India's longest serving Foreign Secretary, covering the nearly nine eventful decades of his life. It tells the story how a Bengali village boy without any connections had one of the most distinguished careers of his generation...
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| 246 | 3 | |a A Political Biography of Subimal Dutt (1903-1992), India's Longest Serving Foreign Secretary | |
| 264 | 1 | |a Leiden ; |a Boston : |b Brill | Manohar Publishers & Distributors, |c 2017. | |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |t Preliminary Material / |r Amit Das Gupta -- Preface / |r Amit Das Gupta -- Acknowledgements / |r Amit Das Gupta -- Introduction / |r Amit Das Gupta -- Formative Years (1903-1928) / |r Amit Das Gupta -- Indian Civil Service (1928-1947) / |r Amit Das Gupta -- Commonwealth Secretary (July 1947-February 1952) / |r Amit Das Gupta -- The German Years (1952-1954) / |r Amit Das Gupta -- Commonwealth Secretary Again (May 1954-11 October 1955) / |r Amit Das Gupta -- Foreign Secretary I: From Smooth Start into Deepest Crisis (12 October 1955-1957) / |r Amit Das Gupta -- Foreign Secretary II: Foreign Policy in a Lull (1957-Spring 1958) / |r Amit Das Gupta -- Foreign Secretary III: From All-rounder to Specialist (1958-1961) / |r Amit Das Gupta -- The Moscow Interlude (June 1961-September 1962) / |r Amit Das Gupta -- President's Office and Vigilance Commissions (November 1962-February 1972) / |r Amit Das Gupta -- High Commissioner in Bangladesh (February 1972-June 1974) / |r Amit Das Gupta -- Retirement (June 1974-2 March 1992) / |r Amit Das Gupta -- Conclusion / |r Amit Das Gupta -- Abbreviations / |r Amit Das Gupta -- Bibliography / |r Amit Das Gupta -- Index / |r Amit Das Gupta. | |
| 520 | |a This is the first academic biography of Subimal Dutt, best known as India's longest serving Foreign Secretary, covering the nearly nine eventful decades of his life. It tells the story how a Bengali village boy without any connections had one of the most distinguished careers of his generation without ever forgetting his roots. Struggling all his life between professional ambition and deep spirituality, Dutt never transformed into one of those 'brown Englishmen' so typical of South Asia's civil servants, but remained a strictly impartial, straightforward and incorruptible officer of - as he formulated it himself - the 'vernacular type'. Intellect and discipline brought him into the Indian Civil Service and soon to Delhi, where he excelled as an outstanding administrator and moved into the field of foreign relations. After an interlude as Indian Agent in Malaya, as Bengal's Secretary for Agriculture he held a most important posting during the Second World War. Working closely with Nehru in his capacity as Commonwealth and later Foreign Secretary for over twelve years, he became one of the most influential advisors of India's first Prime Minister. His career seemed to come to an end as Secretary to the President and later Vigilance Commissioner, but in 1972 he was appointed India's first High Commissioner to Bangladesh, building bridges between the country of his birth and the one he had chosen in 1947. Though Dutt made it a point to be nearly invisible throughout his career, thereafter he did everything possible to be rediscovered posthumously. | ||
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