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| adam_text | AMIT DAS GUPTA.
SERVING INDIA: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF SUBIMAL DUT (1903*1992).
INDIA*S LONGEST SERVING FOREIGN SECRETARY.
NEW DELHI: MANOHAR PUBLISHERS & DISTRIB-
UTORS, 2017. 613 S. INR 1795.00 (CLOTH), ISBN 978-93-5098163-4.
REVIEWED BY
TCA RAGHAVAN (INDEPENDENT SCHOLAR)
PUBLISHED ON
H-ASIA (MARCH, 2018)
COMMISSIONED BY
SUMIT GUHA (HE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN)
HERE IS A GROWING INTEREST IN INDIAN DIPLOMATIC HIS-
TORY AND IN THE MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFAIRS (MEA) OF
THE 1950S AND 1960S. HIS IS FED IN PART BY THE GREATER
AVAILABILITY OF GOVERNMENT ARCHIVAL RECORDS AND PRIVATE
PAPERS. HE PRESENT STUDY IS A DETAILED BIOGRAPHY OF SUBI-
MAL DUT, ONE OF THE EARLY STALWARTS OF THE NEWLY ESTAB-
LISHED MEA AND WHO SERVED IN THE 1970S AS INDIA*S IRST
HEAD OF MISSION IN THE RECENTLY CREATED BANGLADESH. DUT
MOVED TO THE MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFAIRS JUST BEFORE IN-
DEPENDENCE IN JULY 1947. HIS EARLIER CAREER AS AN OICER
OF THE PRESTIGIOUS INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE (ICS) WAS DIVIDED
BETWEEN BENGAL AND IN NEW DELHI IN THE GOVERNMENT OF
INDIA.
WITH THE COMING OF INDEPENDENCE, THE NEWLY CREATED
MEA REQUIRED PERSONNEL, AND OICERS OF THE ICS WERE A
NATURAL POOL FROM WHICH TO DRAW THEM. HIS SELECTION CAN
IN PART BE ATRIBUTED TO ITS HEAD, SIR GIRIJA SHANKAR BAJPAI,
UNDER WHOM DUT HAD EARLIER SERVED IN THE MINISTRY OF
EDUCATION, HEALTH, AND LANDS. JAWAHARLAL NEHRU RETAINED
CHARGE OF THE MEA THROUGHOUT HIS TENURE AS PRIME MINIS-
TER. SIR GIRIJA WAS ITS CIVIL SERVICE HEAD BUT WITH A DISTINC-
TIVE POSITION OF SECRETARY GENERAL, UNLIKE OTHER MINISTRIES
OF THE CABINET WHICH WERE HEADED BY SECRETARIES.
BY THE TIME DUT JOINED THE MEA HE ALREADY HAD SOME
TWENTY YEARS* EXPERIENCE AS A CIVIL SERVANT. HIS IRST AP-
POINTMENT WAS AS COMMONWEALTH SECRETARY, A POST HE
HELD UNTIL 1952 WHEN HE MOVED TO BONN AS INDIA*S AM-
BASSADOR TO THE THEN FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY. HIS
TENURE HERE WAS RELATIVELY SHORT*ABOUT TWO YEARS*AND
HE RETURNED TO INDIA FOR PERSONAL REASONS AND WAS AP-
POINTED AS COMMONWEALTH SECRETARY AGAIN. IN 1955 HE
WAS APPOINTED FOREIGN SECRETARY*A POST HE WAS TO HOLD
UNTIL MID-1961*HENCE THE SUBTITLE OF THE BOOK, *INDIA*S
LONGEST SERVING FOREIGN SECRETARY.* HIS, HOWEVER, DOES
MERIT SOME QUALIICATION. HE POST OF FOREIGN SECRETARY
AS IT EXISTS TODAY REALLY EMERGED WITH THE ABOLITION OF
THE POST OF SECRETARY GENERAL (SG) IN 1964 AS THE HIGHEST-
RANKING CIVIL SERVANT IN THE MEA AND THE HEAD OF THE IFS.
SUBIMAL DUT AS FOREIGN SECRETARY WAS ESSENTIALLY NUM-
BER TWO AND AS SUCH HIS LONG TENURE IS NOT COMPARABLE
WITH THOSE IN THE FUTURE. HE ABOLITION OF THE POST OF SG
IN FACT MARKED A LARGER CHANGE, AS POST NEHRU THE CABINET
HAD A SEPARATE FOREIGN MINISTER.
ATER HIS SERVICE AS FOREIGN SECRETARY DUT MOVED TO
MOSCOW AS AMBASSADOR TO THE SOVIET UNION. HIS STAY HERE
WAS, LIKE IN THE FRG, SHORT, LASTING LESS THAN A YEAR AND A
HALF AND CUT SHORT BECAUSE OF A PERSONAL TRAGEDY. IN INDIA,
DUT WAS APPOINTED SECRETARY TO THE PRESIDENT, DR. S. RAD-
HAKRISHNAN, FROM WHICH POSITION HE MOVED TO THE WEST
BENGAL VIGILANCE COMMISSION, THE STATE*S ANTICORRUPTION
WATCHDOG. HE HELD THEREATER A NUMBER OF OTHER POSTS
IN THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BEFORE BEING APPOINTED VIGI-
LANCE COMMISSIONER OF THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA IN 1968.
IN EARLY 1972 HE FOUND HIMSELF OFERED THE POST OF THE IRST
HIGH COMMISSIONER TO BANGLADESH AND THIS TURNED OUT TO
BE HIS LONGEST DIPLOMATIC POSTING, EXTENDING FOR ALMOST
TWO AND A HALF YEARS. FROM 1974 DUT LIVED A LIFE OF RE-
TIREMENT UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1992.
HIS IS AN EXHAUSTIVE, AND, IT MAY BE SAID, EXHAUST-
ING BIOGRAPHY OF SUBIMAL DUT. HE AMOUNT OF DETAIL
CONTAINED IN ITS SIX HUNDRED PAGES IS IN PART ACCOUNTED
FOR BY A CONSIDERABLE COMPENDIUM OF DUT*S PRIVATE PA-
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PERS AND EQUALLY BY THE INDUSTRY WITH WHICH THE AUTHOR
HAS MINED THE ARCHIVE OF THE MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AF-
FAIRS AND OTHER SOURCES. IT WOULD BE A FAIR COMMENT THAT
ALL THE ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS OF DUT*S DIFERENT DEPLOY-
MENTS AND POSTINGS*PROMOTIONS; PAY; INTRA-OICE IN-
TRIGUES, TENSIONS, AND FRICTIONS; PLUS ALL THE OTHER MINUTAE
OF A INDIAN CIVIL SERVANT*S LIFE*RECEIVE ALMOST AS MUCH AT-
TENTION AS THE SUBSTANTIVE AND POLICY ISSUES HE DEALT WITH.
HERE IS IN ADDITION SUICIENT DETAIL ON THE SOMEWHAT RET-
ICENT AND SELF-EFACING DUT*S INTERFACE WITH FRIENDS, RI-
VALS, SUPERIORS, AND SUBORDINATES MUCH OF WHICH HE DILI-
GENTLY RECORDED IN A PERSONAL DIARY. INTERNAL INTRIGUE AND
PERSONAL RIVALRIES IN THE MINISTRY OF EXTERNAL AFAIRS*OF
WHICH THERE WAS, AND IS, A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT BUT PER-
HAPS NO MORE THAN IN ANY LARGE ORGANIZATION*ALSO THERE-
FORE IGURE. WOVEN INTO THIS NARRATIVE, AND DRAWN FROM
DUT*S PERSONAL DIARIES, IS ALSO A GREAT DEAL OF PERSONAL
DETAIL ABOUT HIM AND HIS FAMILY. ALL THIS ALONGSIDE THE
MORE SPECIIC ISSUES OF FOREIGN POLICY AND BILATERAL COUN-
TRY RELATIONSHIPS OF DUT*S DIFERENT CHARGES MAKES FOR A
BOOK WHICH IS EXCEPTIONALLY DETAILED WITH OF COURSE THE
ATENDANT RISK OF MISSING THE WOOD FOR THE TREES.
TO AN EXTENT MY SYMPATHIES ARE WITH THE AUTHOR. HE
EARLY PERIOD OF INDIA*S DIPLOMATIC HISTORY IS A FASCINATING
AND RELATIVELY UNDERSTUDIED ONE, ESPECIALLY THE INTERNAL
DYNAMICS OF THE GOVERNMENT BODY RESPONSIBLE FOR FOR-
EIGN POLICY AND ITS INSTITUTIONAL AND WORK CULTURE. HEN,
TOO, THE POSTS HE HELD*COMMONWEALTH SECRETARY AND FOR-
EIGN SECRETARY*MAKE DUT AN IMPORTANT BRIDGING IGURE
BETWEEN THE PRIME MINISTER*S OICE (EFECTIVELY ALSO THE
FOREIGN MINISTER*S OICE) AND THE MEA. FINALLY, THE MASS
OF PRIVATE PAPERS DUT HAS LET MAKE HIM AN IRRESISTIBLE
IGURE FOR HISTORICAL RESEARCH. HE PROBLEM, HOWEVER, IS
THAT DUT HIMSELF FOR A LARGE PART OF HIS CAREER HAD NO REAL
INTEREST IN FOREIGN AFAIRS. TOO OTEN HE INTERPRETED AND
CONCENTRATED HIS ROLE AS MAKING THE MEA *A SMOOTHLY
RUNNING MACHINE,* A TASK WHICH HE EVIDENTLY TOOK ON WITH
MUCH RELISH. ABOUT HIS IRST STINT AS COMMONWEALTH SEC-
RETARY DAS GUPTA COMMENTS, *IT MAKES SENSE TO CHARAC-
TERIZE DUT MORE AS AN ICS THAN AN IFS OICER*. HE MEA
WAS JUST ANOTHER OICE* (P. 149). IN HIS POSTINGS ABROAD,
BOTH IN BONN AND THEN IN MOSCOW, THE RETICENT AND SELF-
EFACING DUT DOES NOT APPEAR AT EASE. WHILE THERE WERE
OTHERS SIMILAR TO DUT, THERE WERE MANY WHO WERE NOT
AND FOR LONG STRETCHES OF HIS CAREER DUT WAS TO IND THAT
OTEN THE INITIATIVE WAS SEIZED BY OTHER ICS CONTEMPO-
RARIES, IGURES SUCH AS BADRUDDIN TYABJI, Y. D. GUNDE-
VIA, AND K. P. S. MENON, WHO WOULD PASSIONATELY COMMIT
THEMSELVES TO THE SUBJECTS IN THEIR CHARGE, OR EVEN M. J.
DESAI (WHOSE INLUENCE CAME FROM THE CLOSE LINKS HE HAD
WITH NEHRU*S CONIDANT, KRISHNA MENON). DAS GUPTA IS
POSSIBLY ACCURATE IN PORTRAYING DUT AS ONE WHO *DID NOT
SPEND MUCH TIME MUSING ABOUT GENERAL TRENDS IN INTER-
NATIONAL AFAIRS, BUT SAW THE HANDLING OF INDIA*S FOREIGN
AFAIRS AS A DAY TO DAY AFAIR* (P. 387). DAS GUPTA*S AIM,
HOWEVER, APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN TO PROVIDE AS DETAILED AN
ACCOUNT OF THE FUNCTIONING OF A CIVIL SERVANT AS POSSIBLE
AND IN THIS HE SUCCEEDS IN LARGE MEASURE. HE PROBLEM IN
HIS BIOGRAPHY THEN BECOMES SITING THROUGH A MASS OF DE-
TAIL IN A CIVIL SERVANT*S CAREER TO IDENTIFY GENERAL THEMES
OR KEY ISSUES. HERE IS ALSO THE ATENDANT RISK OF TAKING
THE SUBJECT*S EVALUATION OF HIS ROLE AND CONTRIBUTION IN THE
DECISION-MAKING PROCESS AT FACE VALUE SINCE NOT ALL THE AC-
TORS INVOLVED SEPARATELY KEPT A RECORD OF THEIR READINGS OF
DIFERENT ISSUES AND THEIR HANDLING.
IN THE TREATMENT OF DUT IN THE MEA AS COMMON-
WEALTH SECRETARY ALONGSIDE RELATED ADMINISTRATIVE DETAILS,
THE PICTURE THAT EMERGES IS OF HIM AS LARGELY DIVORCED
FROM THE CENTRAL ISSUES THAT DOMINATED THE EXTERNAL CON-
CERNS OF THE GOI AT THE TIME. IN LARGE PART THIS WAS
BECAUSE OF THE TWO LARGER-THAN-LIFE IGURES*NEHRU AND
SECRETARY GENERAL BAJPAI AND LATER HIS SUCCESSOR, WHO
BETWEEN THEM HANDLED THE POLICY- AND DECISION-MAKING
ON ALL CRITICAL ISSUES. BUT POSSIBLY HIS OVERALL PERSONAL-
ITY ALSO CAME IN THE WAY OF HIS TAKING A PERSONAL INITIA-
TIVE TO DEMONSTRATE HIS CAPACITY TO TAKE CHARGE AND DE-
LIVER ON A PARTICULAR ISSUE. IN DUT*S CHARGE FELL LARGELY A
PLETHORA OF MISCELLANEOUS AND ROUTINE ISSUES. IN THE PE-
RIOD OF THE BENGAL CRISIS OF EARLY 1950, A TENSE PERIOD IN
INDIA PAKISTAN RELATIONS, DUT WAS CERTAINLY IN THE PIC-
TURE BECAUSE OF HIS BENGAL BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCE.
BUT HE DEALT LARGELY WITH THE DOMESTIC ASPECTS OF HAN-
DLING LARGE-SCALE DISPLACEMENT ISSUES. ON THE DIPLOMACY
ASSOCIATED WITH PAKISTAN AND THE INAL OUTCOME IN THE
FORM OF THE NEHRU LIAQAT PACT ON MINORITIES, A SIGNIF-
ICANT MILESTONE OF THE TIME, HE APPEARS TO HAVE PLAYED
NO LARGE ROLE ALTHOUGH DAS GUPTA OCCASIONALLY APPEARS TO
SUGGEST OTHERWISE. SIMILARLY, ON THE VERY SENSITIVE ISSUE
OF RESCUING ABDUCTED WOMEN, DUT FOUND HIMSELF UNABLE
TO KEEP PACE WITH THE ACTIVIST IREBRAND MRIDULA SARABHAI
AND HER UNORTHODOX APPROACH. IF THERE WAS AN ISSUE IN
WHICH HE ASSERTED HIMSELF IT WAS THE SENSITIVE BUT LARGELY
ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUE OF THE DOWNSIZING THE INDIAN HIGH
COMMISSION IN LONDON*SENSITIVE BECAUSE THIS WAS HIGH
COMMISSIONER KRISHNA MENON*S IEFDOM AND HE WAS VERY
CLOSE TO NEHRU.
DUT*S NEXT TENURE IN INDIA EXTENDED TO ABOUT SEVEN
YEARS*ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AS COMMONWEALTH SECRE-
TARY AND THEN AS FOREIGN SECRETARY AND NUMBER TWO IN
THE CIVIL SERVICE HIERARCHY OF THE MEA. IN THE FOUR CHAP-
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TERS (SOME TWO HUNDRED PAGES) THAT DEAL WITH THIS PERIOD,
BOTH ADMINISTRATIVE DETAIL AND THE BIG ISSUES OF THE TIME*
PAKISTAN, THE SUEZ CRISIS, HUNGARY, RELATIONS WITH THE US
AND THE USSR, AND INALLY, THE GROWING GULF WITH CHINA*
IGURE PROMINENTLY IN THE NARRATIVE. DUT APPEARS TO HAVE
BECOME SURER OF HIMSELF AS HE GREW CLOSER TO NEHRU. IT
WOULD APPEAR A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH NEHRU*S PRINCI-
PAL ASSISTANT, THE UPSTART MATHAI, HELPED GREATLY IN THIS
TOO. HEN THERE IS KRISHNA MENON, NEHRU*S PRINCIPAL AD-
VISOR ON FOREIGN AFAIRS ALTHOUGH DESIGNATED AS MINISTER
WITHOUT PORTFOLIO. FOR DUT, HE WAS BOTH A POWERFUL IN-
TEREST TO BE KEPT ON BOARD, LATERED AND PROPITIATED BUT
WHOSE ANTI-US AND PRO-COMMUNIST INCLINATIONS ALSO HAD
TO BE DEALT WITH AND RESISTED. WE HAVE A FULL ACCOUNT OF
ALL THESE FACTORS AND IN THEIR MINUTEST DETAIL. HE OVERLAP
OF THE SUEZ AND HUNGARY CRISES IN OCTOBER 1956 SAW A DE-
BATE, BOTH IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN AND ALSO IN THE MEA, THAT
INDIA WAS PREPARED TO BE CRITICAL OF THE UK AND FRENCH
INTERVENTION IN SUEZ BUT NOT SO ABOUT SOVIET INTERVENTION
IN HUNGARY. WHEN INDIA VOTED AGAINST A US-SPONSORED
RESOLUTION ON HUNGARY INSTEAD OF ABSTAINING, WHICH WAS
THE OICIAL VIEW IN MEA, KRISHNA MENON WAS REGARDED
AS RESPONSIBLE. NEHRU, HOWEVER, BACKED MENON IN THIS,
ALTHOUGH SOME TIME LATER THE INDIAN POSITION WAS RECAL-
IBRATED. DUT, IN DAS GUPTA*S ACCOUNT AND BY HIS DIARY
ENTRIES, WAS IN DISAGREEMENT WITH THE POSITION TAKEN ON
HUNGARY AND EVEN CONSIDERED RESIGNING. DAS GUPTA SEES
DUT TRYING HARD TO PREVENT THE MENON-LED *DISASTER* ON
HUNGARY BUT NOT BEING ABLE TO DO SO. HERE WAS OF COURSE
AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW IN THE MEA THEN, AND HELD MUCH LATER
TOO, THAT THERE WAS A FUNDAMENTAL DIFERENCE BETWEEN FOR-
MER IMPERIAL POWERS INTERVENING IN A FORMER COLONY AND
A GREAT POWER INTERVENING IN ITS IMMEDIATE BACKYARD.
HE CHAPTERS ON DUT*S TENURE AS FOREIGN SECRETARY DE-
PEND GREATLY ON HIS PERSONAL PAPERS AND DIARIES, SOME STILL
PRIVATELY HELD AND OTHERS DEPOSITED IN THE TEEN MURTI LI-
BRARY IN NEW DELHI. HE TREATMENT OF THIS PERIOD DETAILS
THE INTRICACIES OF THE ISSUES THAT DUT DEALT WITH AND IT
DOES APPEAR THAT ON MANY KEY ISSUES HE WAS MORE OF AN
OBSERVER THAN A KEY ADVISOR. HE LIST INCLUDES THE SOVIET
UNION, THE UNITED STATES, AND THE UNITED KINGDOM, WHERE
THE SECRETARY GENERAL OR THE AMBASSADORS IN THE RESPEC-
TIVE CAPITALS DEALT DIRECTLY WITH PRIME MINISTER NEHRU.
SIMILARLY, ON PAKISTAN THE FOREIGN SECRETARY RARELY IF EVER
WAS INVOLVED IN THE SUBSTANTIVE DIPLOMACY OF THE PERIOD.
AN AREA WHICH SEES A DEPARTURE FROM THIS PATERN IS THE
CRUCIAL SINO-INDIA BORDER DISPUTE WHERE DUT SUPERVISED
THE GROUNDWORK OF THE NEGOTIATIONS OF WHAT WAS THE UL-
TIMATELY FAILED SUMMIT OF APRIL 1960. HIS TO A GREAT EX-
TENT MEANT SYSTEMATIZING AND COMPILING INDIAN HISTORI-
CAL CLAIMS ON THE BOUNDARY ALTHOUGH IN THE SUMMIT ITSELF
THE DETAILS NEVER CAME UP FOR DISCUSSION. IN DAS GUPTA*S
READING, DUT*S *KEY ROLE IN THE BORDER DISPUTE BETWEEN
EARLY 1958 AND LATE 1960 CANNOT BE OVERESTIMATED* (P.
388). WHILE THIS MAY BE THE PICTURE THAT EMERGES IN DUT*S
ACCOUNT, IT MAY NEED TO BE SUPPLEMENTED BY OTHER VIEWS.
DUT*S CIVIL SERVICE CAREER IN THE MEA ENDED WITH THE
SHORT POSTING TO MOSCOW. DUT*S LONGEST DIPLOMATIC AS-
SIGNMENT IN FACT CAME A DECADE LATER WHEN HE WAS SENT
TO DACCA AS INDIA*S IRST HIGH COMMISSIONER TO NEWLY IN-
DEPENDENT BANGLADESH. HE WAS CHOSEN FOR THIS ASSIGN-
MENT BOTH BECAUSE OF HIS BENGAL BACKGROUND AND HIS REP-
UTATION FOR BEING A STICKLER FOR RULES AND NOT ONE WHO
WOULD LET THE HEADY ATMOSPHERE OF EARLY POSTLIBERATION
BANGLADESH GO TO HIS HEAD. HIS WAS POSSIBLY THE ONE
DIPLOMATIC POST DUT MOST ENJOYED AND LET WITH REGRET.
IT IS ALSO IN THIS BOOK DENSELY DOCUMENTED, LARGELY ON AC-
COUNT OF THE DETAILS IN DUT*S PRIVATE PAPERS, AND THE PIC-
TURE THAT WE GET IS A FASCINATING ACCOUNT OF THE DIICULTIES
INDIA FACED IN BUILDING BRIDGES IN TERRITORY THAT HAD UNTIL
A FEW MONTHS EARLIER BEEN PART OF PAKISTAN.
HE SHEER LENGTH OF THE BOOK MAY DETER ALL BUT THE
MOST CONSCIENTIOUS SCHOLAR. AMIT DAS GUPTA IS, HOWEVER,
TO BE COMMENDED FOR THE INDUSTRY WITH WHICH HE HAS RE-
CONSTRUCTED THE LIFE AND CAREER OF AN OTHERWISE LARGELY
FORGOTEN CIVIL SERVANT.
EDITORIAL NOTE: HE ORIGINAL REVIEW MISIDENTIIED THE
NATION WHOSE INTERVENTION IN SUEZ STOOD TO BE CRITICIZED
BY INDIA. IT WAS THE UK, NOT THE US.
IF THERE IS ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION OF THIS REVIEW, YOU MAY ACCESS IT
THROUGH THE NETWORK, AT:
HTPS://NETWORKS.H-NET.ORG/H-ASIA
CITATION:
TCA RAGHAVAN. REVIEW OF DAS GUPTA, AMIT,
SERVING INDIA: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF SUBIMAL DUT (1903*
1992). INDIA*S LONGEST SERVING FOREIGN SECRETARY
. H-ASIA, H-NET REVIEWS. MARCH, 2018.
URL:
HTP://WWW.H-NET.ORG/REVIEWS/SHOWREV.PHP?ID=50236
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HIS WORK IS LICENSED UNDER A CREATIVE COMMONS ATRIBUTION-NONCOMMERCIAL-
NO DERIVATIVE WORKS 3.0 UNITED STATES LICENSE.
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