The Kashmir Issue and the United Nations
A personalized copy of ‘The Kashmir Issue and the United Nations’, given to Miss Lila Chandra from G.R. Channon. The article is a reprinted copy from Political Science Quarterly, Vol.65, No.2, June 1950, written by Taraknath Das. The article summarizes the history of the conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir and how the conflict could develop into a serious threat to world peace.
"Hyderabad And The Indian Union"
Newspaper clipping of a letter titled "Hyderabad and the Indian Union", from Taraknath Das, published on the Washington Post editorial page, July 3, 1948. Das argues that the U.N. is an impartial body, and its support of Pakistan on the issue of Kashmir is a direct result of U.S. pressure to please the pan-Islamist bloc in order to ally with it against the Soviet Union.
Letter from Taraknath Das to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
Letter from Taraknath Das to Deputy Prime Minister Vallabhbhai Patel dated July 3, 1948. "We may claim on behalf of Indians in America to express our heartfelt gratitude to you and your associates for your firm and statesman-like stand against balkanisation of India specially for solution to problems of Indian states," he writes.
Letter from Taraknath Das to Godha Ram Channon
Letter from Taraknath Das to Godha Ram Channon dated July 22, 1948. Das asks Channon to distribute copies of a letter to the Times and to read a separate letter addressed to "Friends" to trusted groups. "Nizam’s agents in Washington and other places [are] working hard," he writes. "I have sent a letter to Washington Post in answer to one of those letters.
Letter from Taraknath Das
Letter from Taraknath Das dated July 22, 1948. Das urges the Indian community in the U.S. to counteract the messages being spread amongst the American public by representatives of the Indian government in the U.S., who were pressured by the U.S.’ pro-Pakistan stance to support Partition.
Letter from Taraknath Das to Godha Ram Channon
Letter from Taraknath Das to Godha Ram Channon dated August 4, 1948. Das urges Channon to organize the California Indian community against Partition. "It does not matter if we only get 50 people in California who are really with us for the cause of establishing a United States of India and no Partition," he writes. "Number does not count. It is the quality of men and women which counts.
Letter from Taraknath Das
Letter from Taraknath Das dated September 17, 1947. "Indians in S.F., Los Angeles and other centres should hold meetings and send messages to India advocating end to Nizam’s rule and no compromise."
Letter from Taraknath Das to Godha Ram Channon
Letter from Taraknath Das to Godha Ram Channon dated September 17, 1950. Das writes about the difficulties he has encountered from Indian officials in trying to organize aid for earthquake victims in Assam.
Letter from Taraknath Das to Godha Ram Channon
Letter from Taraknath Das to Godha Ram Channon dated August 3, 1950. Das complains that no one in the Indian government has spent as much as five cents to help him distribute his article on Kashmir, but they have enough money to throw elaborate parties for handsomely-compensated Indian government employees in the U.S.