India-Nepal Ties- Major Failures and Minor Irritants

January 2, 1971 low-feeling with other poor countries have led to greater diplomatic efforts on our part in South-East Asia and in Africa, Whatever links of sentiment or history there might have been, have been discarded on the Indian side, specially after Britain's decidedly racist 1968 Immigration Act restricting the admission of its own citizens or Asian origin and the 1969 decision to impose a '15 per cent tariff on Indian cotton textiles.