Jan Smuts and the Indian question - Off centre: New perspectives on public issues (Paperback)

As the only surviving statesman of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, Jan Smuts arrived for the first session of the United Nations in New York in 1946 to celebratory chants. His departure, a month and a half later, was terrifyingly dissimilar. The `counsellor of nations’ left a dejected man, with his honour, power and glory severely dented. The tragedy that befell Smuts’ international swansong was an Indian delegation, which, as Smuts bemoaned, used his own words against himself and showed him to be a hypocrite. This was eerily similar to a diplomatic onslaught Smuts had faced between 1917 and 1923 at the hands of another set of little-known Indian diplomats. Through these episodic histories, this book chronicles the ambivalent cosmopolitanism of Jan Smuts.

General

Imprint:	University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Country of origin:	South Africa
Release date:	October 2017
Authors:	Vineet Thakur
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	152
ISBN-13:	978-1-86914-378-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Political leaders & leadership Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > Diplomacy Books > History > General
LSN:	1-86914-378-7
Barcode:	9781869143787

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