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Jagat S. Mehta |
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Jagat S. Mehta was born in Udaipur in 1922 into one of the then princely state’s most prominent families. After degrees from Allahabad and Cambridge universities, he joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1947. He was chargé d'affaires in China between 1963-66, launched the foreign ministry’s policy planning division in 1966, was high commissioner in Tanzania between 1970-74, becoming Foreign Secretary in 1976, a post he held till 1979.
During his career he led the ministry’s negotiations on many issues of critical importance including the Sino-Indian boundary question (1960), the financial compensation for Indians expelled from Uganda (1975), the comprehensive normalization of India-Pakistan relations (1976), the Salal Hydel project in Kashmir (1976), securing the withdrawal of the Farakka item from the UN (1976), the Farakka Agreement with Bangladesh (1977), the Separate Trade and Transit Treaties with Nepal (1978) and preventing the militarization of Pakistan after the Saur Revolution in Afghanistan (1978).
He was a Fellow at Harvard between 969-70 and again in 1980-81. He was at the Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington, DC in 1981-82 and was the Tom Slick Professor for World Peace at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas, Austin, from 1983-1985. He later held the post of visiting professor at the university from 1986-1995.
Jagat S. Mehta is the author of Militarization in the Third World (1985); The March of Folly in Afghanistan (2002); Negotiating for India (2006); and Rescuing the Future (2008). He has also published articles inter alia on diplomatic negotiations; democracy and South-Asian security; world politics after the Cold War; international riparian problems; Non-Alignment and relations with China, Pakistan, and Nepal.
He remains associated with voluntary organizations in Udaipur. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2002.
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