Quest for Freedom: The United States and India's by Kenton Clymer

Quest for Freedom: The United States and India's by Kenton Clymer

By Kenton Clymer

A examine of India's fight in the direction of independence, which examines the search within the broader context of the USA's reaction to the query of Asian nationalism. the writer perspectives American overseas coverage at a time of significant swap in America's perspective in the direction of the colonial global.

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Unfortunately, the Indians in America are a very unsatisfactory lot,” he confided in 1940 to Abul Kalam Azad, the president of the Congress. “They shout a lot and do no good work. ” Nehru’s point was well taken but not entirely fair to Singh, who devoted himself and his financial resources to the nationalist cause. Without the league, the nationalists in the United States would not have accomplished as much as they did. ”37 Nehru may not have had great respect for Singh, but Singh’s hero was Nehru.

Nevertheless, the possibility for some American pressure on the India question existed. The State Department already feared that British actions tended to make India a less than secure base from which to prosecute the war, a point nationalists drove home at every opportunity. And the department was not unaware that the selfdetermination argument resonated powerfully in the domestic political context. Certainly the British feared the effects of the new and favorable publicity that Indian nationalism was now receiving in the United States.

In that year Benjamin Joy, a Boston merchant who had lived for many years in India, took up his post in Calcutta. Subsequently the United States appointed consuls to other cities in India. But in the early years the British East India Company refused to recognize them; they achieved little and made few reports. The pay was so inadequate that few consuls remained in the service very long. ”22 The first serious official American interest in India occurred with the struggle against the British that developed at the end of World War I.

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