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India vs UK : The Story of an Unprecedented Diplomatic Win
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About the book
From the revolt of 1857 and the freedom movement to duels on the cricket pitch, India and the United Kingdom have been on opposing sides on numerous occasions. A less known instance when this dynamic played out was the 2017 election for a seat on the International Court of Justice.
Unwilling at first, India was prompted to enter the ring in the wake of the Kulbhushan Jadhav case. The contest that followed proved to be a ‘second war of Independence’ in the words of then foreign minister Sushma Swaraj – and a David-and-Goliath fight against the permanent members of the Security Council, who all put their might behind the UK.
Syed Akbaruddin, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN at the time, presents a behind-the-scenes account of India’s coming-of-age in world affairs through the prism of this momentous election.
Pages: 240
Available in: Hardback
Language: English
Syed Akbaruddin
Syed Akbaruddin is a former diplomat of the 1985 batch of the Indian Foreign Service. His last assignment was as India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York from 2016 to 2020. He is presently Dean of the Kautilya School of Public Policy in Hyderabad.“