Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Prologue -- 1 Geopolitics as the theory of world dominion -- 2 The imperialism of anti-imperialism: the United States and India in the Second World War -- 3 War and the world: Tagoreâ#x80;#x99;s praxis of the global from the 1890s to the 1920s -- 4 From Erode to Volga: Periyar EVRâ#x80;#x99;s Soviet and European tour, 1932 -- 5 The Indian Civil Service and Indian foreign policy -- 6 Indiaâ#x80;#x93;USSR, 1946â#x80;#x93;1949: a false start?