Manu Bhagavan

Archive data: Person was Visiting Fellow at IDSA from 11-28 June 2012

Manu Bhagavan is a historian and the author or (co-) editor of 5 books, most recently The Peacemakers: India and The Quest for One World (HarperCollins India, 2012). He teaches at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York, where he is an Associate Professor. Manu has been a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and President of the Society for Advancing the History of South Asia. He lives in New York City.
Visiting Fellow
E-mail: manu[dot]bhagavan[at]hunter[dot]cuny[dot]edu
Phone: +91 11 2671 7983

Publication

Towards a World Community: Thoughts on India and the Idea of United Nations Reform

The title of this article is derived from a famous speech made by Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister, at the United Nations in December 1956. Over the previous decade, Nehru, together with his sister, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, and Mahatma Gandhi, had been working to build the UN into a form of global government. They termed their vision One World, and it had democracy and human rights as its basis.

Published: November 2011
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