Abstract

This paper investigates the development of a close relationship between the Ford Foundation—the world’s richest and most internationally oriented philanthropic organisation in the Cold War era—and India in the 1950s. Unlike existing literature on private foundation–recipient country relationships, which overwhelmingly focusses on the donor perspective, this essay explores the recipient perspective, thereby contributing to the emerging literature on Third World agency in international politics. Complicating the idea that recipient countries were overwhelmingly interested in aid maximisation, this article shows that India moved closer to the Ford Foundation in order to fulfil diplomatic rather than aid-related objectives.

抽象的

本文研究了1950年代福特基金会（冷战时期世界上最富有，最国际化的慈善组织）与印度之间密切关系的发展。与现有的有关私人基金会与受援国关系的现有文献过多地侧重于捐助方的观点不同，本文探讨了受援方的观点，从而为有关国际政治中的第三世界机构的新兴文献做出了贡献。这篇文章使受援国对最大化援助最大化的压倒性兴趣变得更加复杂，该文章表明，印度为了实现外交目标而不是与援助有关的目标而离福特基金会越来越近。