Vineet Thakur is University Lecturer at the Institute for History at Leiden University.

“By bringing out critiques of Sastri from within his contemporaries – Congress statesmen and India’s leading political thinkers – the book succeeds in decolonising pre-independence Indian diplomacy, thus far, a field too deeply entrenched in India’s colonial past.” H-Soz-Kult"[A] most enjoyable treasure box of a book… [this] well-researched and elegantly written monograph covers everything in terms of Sastri's political life" - Amit Das Gupta, Sehepunkte

• Introduction: The Native DiplomatShirtless SrinivasanA Worthy Successor to GokhaleThe Silver-Tongued OratorThe Most Picturesque FigureA Rather Dangerous AmbassadorLike the Anger of RudraAn Honourable CompromiseA Trustee of India’s HonourWe Have No SastriConclusion: An Amiable Usurper

Vineet Thakur is University Lecturer at the Institute for History at Leiden University.

“By bringing out critiques of Sastri from within his contemporaries – Congress statesmen and India’s leading political thinkers – the book succeeds in decolonising pre-independence Indian diplomacy, thus far, a field too deeply entrenched in India’s colonial past.” H-Soz-Kult"[A] most enjoyable treasure box of a book… [this] well-researched and elegantly written monograph covers everything in terms of Sastri's political life" - Amit Das Gupta, Sehepunkte

• Introduction: The Native DiplomatShirtless SrinivasanA Worthy Successor to GokhaleThe Silver-Tongued OratorThe Most Picturesque FigureA Rather Dangerous AmbassadorLike the Anger of RudraAn Honourable CompromiseA Trustee of India’s HonourWe Have No SastriConclusion: An Amiable Usurper

Vineet Thakur is University Lecturer at the Institute for History at Leiden University.

“By bringing out critiques of Sastri from within his contemporaries – Congress statesmen and India’s leading political thinkers – the book succeeds in decolonising pre-independence Indian diplomacy, thus far, a field too deeply entrenched in India’s colonial past.” H-Soz-Kult"[A] most enjoyable treasure box of a book… [this] well-researched and elegantly written monograph covers everything in terms of Sastri's political life" - Amit Das Gupta, Sehepunkte

• Introduction: The Native DiplomatShirtless SrinivasanA Worthy Successor to GokhaleThe Silver-Tongued OratorThe Most Picturesque FigureA Rather Dangerous AmbassadorLike the Anger of RudraAn Honourable CompromiseA Trustee of India’s HonourWe Have No SastriConclusion: An Amiable Usurper