Anatomy of an Elite. The Influence of members of the Indian Civil Service on the foreign policy of independent India

该研究项目旨在调查印度公务员制度（I.C.S.）的官员对独立的印度外交事务的影响。这些行政精英是由英国人培养出来的。首先，重点是详细分析该部门的印度成员对殖民时期政治和国际关系的看法。除了对殖民大国的矛盾关系外，反共和反美主义似乎是典型的特征。其次，它的目的是调查这些态度在多大程度上可以追溯到1947年之后的印度外交政策，在前国际情报局官员接管了外交部和大多数海外使团的最高职位之后。特别令人感兴趣的是总理贾瓦哈拉尔·尼赫鲁和他的主要顾问克里希纳·梅农之间的思想冲突，后者对美国持怀疑态度，但对社会主义国家却不持怀疑态度。该研究项目基于英属印度和外交部的官方文件，以及一些国际情报局官员的私人文件，这些文件的一部分只对未来的研究人员开放。

The research project intends to investigate the influence of the officers of the Indian Civil Service (I.C.S.) on the foreign affairs of independent India. This administrative elite had been trained by the British. The focus is firstly on a detailed analysis of the views of the Indian members of that service regarding politics and international relations during the colonial period. Besides an ambivalent relationship towards the colonial power anti-communism and anti-Americanism seem to have been typical features. Secondly it is intended to investigate to what extent these attitudes can be traced in Indian foreign policy after 1947, after former I.C.S. officers took over the top ranks of the Ministry of External Affairs and most of the missions abroad. Of particular interest are the conflicts between the ideas of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and his main advisor Krishna Menon, who shared a scepticism of the US, but not towards the socialist countries. The research project is based on official documents of British India and of the Ministry of External Affairs together with private papers of a number of I.C.S. officers, which are in parts accessible exclusively to the prospective researcher.