The Author: JAYANTA KUMAR RAY

Jayanta Kumar Ray is currently National Research Professor, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, and Honorary Professor of Institute of Foreign Policy Studies as also of the Department of History at Calcutta University. Some of his previous assignments were: Chairman/Director, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Ministry of Culture, Government of India, Kolkata; National Fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi. He was the first Indian scholar to publish research studies on modern Indonesia, Thailand and East Pakistan, and to write a book in defence of acquisition of a limited nuclear deterrent by India. His writings on civil-military relations, politician-civil servant relations and internal colonialism in ex-colonial countries have attracted a good deal of praise.

His publications include: India’s Foreign Relations, 1947-2007 (2011); India: In Search of Good Governance (2001); Portraits of Thai Politics (1972); Democracy and Nationalism on Trial: A study of East Pakistan (1968); Security in the Missile Age (1967); and Transfer of Power in Indonesia 1942-49 (1967). 

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