Bajpai named distinguished scholar at Library of Congress

Lalit K Jha

Washington, July 24 (PTI) K Shankar Bajpai, who served as
India's diplomat to the US, Pakistan and China, has been
appointed as the Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the
prestigious Library of Congress's John W. Kluge Center.

At the Library, Bajpai hopes to explore the roots and
history of Indo-American relations, and to examine more
closely the question of post-colonial attitudes towards the
colonial experience, a media release said.

Bajpai's appointment started in mid-June and will run
approximately three months, until September 22.

Through a generous endowment from John W. Kluge, the
Library of Congress established the Kluge Center in 2000 to
bring together the world's best thinkers to stimulate and
energise one another to distill wisdom from the Library's rich
resources and to interact with policymakers in Washington.

India's Foreign Secretary from 1982 to 1983, Bajpai spent
many of his formative years in Washington. An expert in
security issues, he joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1952
and served in Germany, Turkey and Pakistan.

He was named high commissioner to Pakistan from 1976 to
1980 and ambassador to China from 1980 to 1982 and to the US
from 1984 to 1986.

On retirement from government service in 1986, he entered
academic life, working as a professor at the University of
California, Berkeley, and as the first professor of
non-Western studies at Brandeis University.

He has been a visiting fellow at Stanford University's
Center for International Security and Cooperation, and the
co-founder and chairman of the Delhi Policy Group, an
independent policy analysis centre in India.

The author of numerous articles on diplomacy, foreign
affairs and national security, Bajpai was the editor of
"Democracy and Diversity: Comparing India and the United
States" (2007). PTI LKJ
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