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India at the United Nations: A postcolonial nation-state on the global stage, 1945-1955.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	India at the United Nations: A postcolonial nation-state on the global stage, 1945-1955./
Author:	Laut, Julie.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	229 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-05(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-05A(E).
Subject:	South Asian studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10301761
ISBN:	9781369464726

India at the United Nations: A postcolonial nation-state on the global stage, 1945-1955.
Laut, Julie.

India at the United Nations: A postcolonial nation-state on the global stage, 1945-1955. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 229 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-05(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2016.

Prior to Indian independence, the Indian National Congress made savvy use of the United Nations as a global stage upon which to establish a sense of inevitability around postcolonial Congress leadership despite the uncertainty of post-independence power sharing in New Delhi. The aspirational postcolonial state staked its claim to moral leadership through anticolonial propaganda, the prominent UN delegate Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit's self-representation of modern Indian womanhood, and highly gendered emotional discourses over the issue of racial oppression. Once faced with the realpolitik of a fragmented and bloody independence, however, nationalist idealism had to be balanced against the pragmatics of state building. The Indian state, focused on the consolidation of power at home and maintaining legitimacy in the international arena, at times placed domestic concerns above the ideals of the United Nations, becoming complicit in the reinforcement of the nation-state system. The extent of the postcolonial state's affiliation with inherited imperialist aggression was minimized through evasive diplomatic maneuvers and the suppression of information. And as Cold War ideologies clashed at the UN after the Korean War broke out, Pandit and India became caught up in the masculine competition between nation-states. This evolving relationship between the postcolonial Indian state and the emergent United Nations produced the foundations of UN postcolonialism -- a gendered cultural construct that emerged in the early years of the UN through both the emotional high of the postcolonial moment and the contradictions of decolonization at the start of the Cold War. This cultural approach argues for a shift away from the more mechanistic organizational histories of the United Nations that fail to consider fully how and where power is produced.

ISBN: 9781369464726Subjects--Topical Terms:

3172880
South Asian studies.

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