The Indian Libertarian

Summary

This 1 January 1960 issue of The Indian Libertarian (Vol. VII No. 23), the Bombay fortnightly edited by Kusum Lotwala and now ‘Incorporating the Free Economic Review and The Indian Rationalist’, leads with an editorial on ‘India and Israel’ and runs signed articles on the Indo-Pakistan defence question, the Sino-Soviet bloc, and the nature of communist aggression, alongside standing departments (Delhi Letter, News Digest, In Lighter Vein) and a Rationalist Supplement by William Henry Chamberlin on ‘India’s Economic Road’. The rendered pages carry the masthead, the editorial, and the opening of two signed articles by M. A. Venkata Rao and M. N. Tholal. The issue’s argumentative center is a realist, anti-communist foreign-policy stance coupled with the journal’s free-economy creed.

Essays

Editorial

The unsigned editorial ‘India and Israel’ questions India’s refusal to fully actualise diplomatic relations with Israel despite formally recognising it. It reads Nehru’s pro-Arab policy as driven by an eye to Pakistan’s ambition to lead the Islamic world and by the logic of balance-of-power, and argues that equal friendship would require normal relations with Israel and Turkey rather than deference to Arab sentiment.

• Criticises India for recognising Israel while declining full diplomatic relations.
• Reads Nehru’s pro-Arab line as a balance-of-power response to Pakistan’s bid for Islamic leadership.
• Argues genuine impartiality would mean normal ties with Israel and Turkey.

Indo-Pakistan Regional Defence Pact

By MA Venkata Rao

M. A. Venkata Rao’s ‘Indo-Pakistan Regional Defence Pact’ weighs proposals for a joint India-Pakistan defence arrangement against the realities of Kashmir and mutual distrust. The opening, in the rendered pages, sets out the strategic case while registering deep scepticism that the political preconditions for such a pact exist.

• Examines the idea of a regional Indo-Pakistan defence pact.
• Sets the strategic logic against the unresolved Kashmir dispute and mutual distrust.
• Continues the issue’s realist treatment of subcontinental security.

Between The Sino-Russian Pincers

By M. N. Tholal

M. N. Tholal’s ‘Between The Sino-Russian Pincers’ opens an analysis of India’s position between the two communist powers, China and the Soviet Union, in the rendered pages. It develops the journal’s recurring warning against complacency toward communist intentions on India’s frontiers.

• Positions India between Chinese and Soviet pressure.
• Warns against underestimating communist strategic intentions.
• Extends the issue’s anti-communist foreign-policy line.

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