Towards a World Community: Thoughts on India and the Idea of United Nations Reform

Manu Bhagavan

Archive data: Person was Visiting Fellow at IDSA from 11-28 June 2012 Manu Bhagavan is a historian and the author or (co-) editor of 5 books, most recently The Peacemakers:… Continue reading Towards a World Community: Thoughts on India and the Idea of United Nations Reform read more

The title of this article is derived from a famous speech made by Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, at the United Nations in December 1956. Over the previous decade, Nehru, together with his sister, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, and Mahatma Gandhi, had been working to build the UN into a form of global government. They termed their vision One World, and it had democracy and human rights as its basis.