Dietmar Rothermund

Bio: Dietmar Rothermund is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union & Marxist philosophy. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 3 publications receiving 5 citations.

India and the Soviet Union

Abstract: Indo-Soviet relations have formed a complex pattern in recent years: changing trends in foreign policy, trade, and aid; the fate of the Communist party of India (CPI); the death of Nehru and the removal of Khrushchev; Kosygin's mediation at Tashkent and Soviet military aid to Pakistan; the Chinese bomb and nonproliferation—these are only a few of the elements in the pattern. The two triangles India-China-Soviet Union and India-Pakistan-Soviet Union are of crucial importance in the game of international diplomacy, in which the Soviet Union has scored several points while India was groping for a new orientation after the period of the old cold war had come to an end and nonalignment had lost much of its meaning. India's political system has shown a remarkable stability, and it has been actively supported by the Soviet Union, although Soviet analysts and Indian Communists find it difficult to justify this support in Marxist terms. The reality of world affairs has often overruled ideological considerations, b...

India in the World Economy: From Antiquity to the Present

Abstract: Cross-cultural exchange has characterized the economic life of India since antiquity. Its long coastline has afforded convenient access to Asia and Africa as well as trading partnerships formed in the exchange of commodities ranging from textiles to military technology and from opium to indigo. In a journey across two thousand years, this enthralling book, written by a leading South Asian historian, describes the ties of trade, migration, and investment between India and the rest of the world and shows how changing patterns of globalization have reverberated in economic policy, politics, and political ideology within India. Along the way, the book asks three major questions: Is this a particularly Indian story? When did the big turning points happen? And is it possible to distinguish the modern from the pre-modern pattern of exchange? These questions invite a new approach to the study of Indian history by placing the region at the center of the narrative. This is global history written on India's terms, and, as such, the book invites Indian, South Asian, and global historians to rethink both their history and their methodologies.

Indo-Soviet Military Cooperation: A Review

Abstract: ARMS ON THE Indian subcontinent are required primarily for security reasons. Despite persuasive arguments to the contrary, the weapons procured by Pakistan and India have been utilized almost exclusively against each other. The situation has been exacerbated by the opposing strategic ambitions of the two superpowers and China in the region. Arms supply patterns, therefore, were established through the interaction of conflicting regional and international forces. The broad pattern of arms supplies to Pakistan and India needs brief description. The U.K., not surprisingly, was the earliest supplier of arms to the two countries and the weapons held by their armed forces at the time of independence in 1947 were of British origin. After 1954, Pakistan started obtaining military assistance from the United States under a Mutual Aid Treaty. India continued to procure military equipment from Britain and to some extent France, until the SinoIndian border conflict in 1962. Thereafter, military cooperation with the Soviet Union was established. After the Indo-Pak war in 1965 a Western arms embargo was imposed against Pakistan and India. Lacking indigenous defense production facilities, Pakistan was the more seriously affected. It turned towards France and later, more conspicuously, towards China. India was relatively better placed because of its growing defense production base. Military assistance from the Soviet Union continued, however, becoming very significant over the years. There is an important difference between governmental perceptions of external arms supplies in Pakistan and India. Pakistan has preferred arms imports, and it is only recently that the Pakistani elite has become conscious of the political liabilities attached to foreign military

Representation of the Other in George Orwell's Burmese Days

Abstract: In Burmese Days , George Orwell presents the relationships between the English people and the Indian people in the days of the British colonialism in Burma. As time goes by, the interactions between the English and the Indians result in the othering process as differences rather than the similarities are emphasized by the English. Thus, the Indians are perceived as the other, as the non-white, non-Christian by the English. In this article the perceptions of the other will be studied with regard to George Orwell's Burmese Days. Moreover, the Eurocentric perceptions of the East and India will be dealt with closely.