Negotiating for India : resolving problems through diplomacy (seven case studies 1958-1978) / Jagat S Mehta

This book is a chronological compilation of the author's diplomatic experiences when he Was involved in seven unconnected negotiating responsibilities. No other officer was entrusted with comparable burdens but he acknowledges that they came to him by bureaucratic happenstance. In the first three-accompanying Nehru to Bhutan (1958), leading the official team for India-China Boundary talks (1960), negotiating compensation for Indians expelled by Idi Amins' Uganda (1975)-he was only a secretatriat official. During the last fournormalizing relations with Pakistan and negotiating Salal hydro-electric project on a 'Pakistani' river (1976), Farakka negotiations with Bangladesh (1977), and separating Trade and Transit with Nepal (1978)-he was the Foreign Secretary which enabled him to recommend improvisations to resolve inherited deadlocks. Most negotiations were with unequal neighbours.