Books By Vineet Thakur - Author

Vineet Thakur is a university lecturer at Leiden University, Netherlands. He studied at JNU (New Delhi) and has previously worked at Ambedkar University (Delhi), University of Johannesburg and SOAS London. He was a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Amsterdam, and Smuts Vesting Fellow at Cambridge University. He is the author of India’s First Diplomat: V.S. Srinivasa Sastri and the Making of Liberal Internationalism (2021); The Imperial Discipline: Race and the Founding of International Relations (with Alexander Davis and Peter Vale); South Africa, Race and the Making of International Relations (2020—with Peter Vale, and winner of the Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations); Postscripts on Independence: Foreign Policy Discourses in India and South Africa (2018) and Jan Smuts and the Indian Question (2017).