Harish C. Mehta

Harish Chandra Mehta[1] is a university lecturer and historian of the foreign relations of the United States. He is also the Editor in Chief of the Rising Asia Journal.[2]

Journalistic career

Mehta has written for the press including for Outlook from at least 1996 through 2000.[3]

Books

Mehta has authored, co-authored, or edited a number of books.

In 1997, he published Cambodia Silenced: The Press under Six Regimes. Writing in the Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science, Steven J. Appold said that the book "does a credible job of informing readders of the who, what, when, and where of Cambodian journalism on the basis of scanty data."[4] However, he added that "the book gives less satisfying asnwers to the questions of how and why of Cambodian journalism."[4][5]

Mehta published a biography of Norodom Ranariddh in 2001 titled Warrior prince: Norodom Ranariddh, son of King Sihanouk of Cambodia. Bertil Lintner, writing in the Far Eastern Economic Review, called it "the most comprehensive account of life inside the Cambodian royal family that has been written so far."[6] The book "cause[d] a serious rift within the family it describes."[6] After giving interviews to Mehta, the book's subject "backed out because he did not want to worsen relations with his father, King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia. ...[issuing] a statement saying that the book is 'inaccurate' and 'fails to reflect the contents of the interviews and words expressed.'"[6]

Hun Sen: Strongman of Cambodia (co-author Julie Mehta) is based on several hours of interviews with Prime Minister Hun Sen, whom the authors have known personally for twenty-one years; an updated edition was published in 2013. It has been criticised by reviewers as being hagiographic[7] and plagued by extreme partiality towards Hun Sen.[8][9]

His book, People’s Diplomacy of Vietnam: Soft Power in the Resistance War, 1965–1972 was published in 2020.[10]

In 2024, he published Between homelands in Michael Ondaatje's fiction co-edited with Julie Mehta.[11]

Awards

As a historian, Mehta has won the Samuel Flagg Bemis Award in 2008 and 2007 given by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.[12]

References

  1. ↑ "Harish C. Mehta". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 6 May 2025.
  2. ↑ "Rising Asia Journal". www.rajraf.org. Retrieved 6 May 2025.
  3. ↑ "Harish Mehta". Outlook. Archived from the original on 15 June 2013. Retrieved 4 May 2026.
  4. 1 2 Appold, Steven J. (1999). "Review of Cambodia Silenced: The Press under Six Regimes". Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science. 27 (2): 184–186. ISSN 0303-8246. JSTOR 24492937. Retrieved 4 May 2026.
  5. ↑ Also reviewed in
  6. 1 2 3 Lintner, Bertil (8 November 2001). "Royal family politics". Far Eastern Economic Review. 164 (44): 67. ISSN 0014-7591. ProQuest 208235739.
  7. ↑ Osborne, Milton (2015). "Hun Sen's Cambodia". Contemporary Southeast Asia. 37 (1). doi:10.1355/cs37-1f. ProQuest 1686398035.
  8. ↑ McLeod, Mark W.; Sebastian Strangio . (New Haven, CT: PB - Yale University Press, 2014. Pp. xv, 322. $37.50.) (1 June 2016). "Hun Sen's Cambodia. By". Historian. 78 (2): 369–370. doi:10.1111/hisn.12206. ISSN 1540-6563.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ↑ Also reviewed in
    • "Hun Sen: Strongman of Cambodia". Jakarta Post. 10 December 2000. ProQuest 288195024.
  10. ↑ Reviews of People's Diplomacy of Vietnam:
    • Holcombe, Alec (1 February 2022). "Review: People's Diplomacy of Vietnam: Soft Power in the Resistance War, 1965–1972 , by Harish C. Mehta". Journal of Vietnamese Studies. 17 (1): 91–96. doi:10.1525/vs.2022.17.1.91.
    • Stewart, Luke (2 July 2020). "People's diplomacy of Vietnam: soft power in the resistance war, 1965-1972: by Harish C. Mehta, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019, 293 pp., US$119.95 (hardcover), ISBN 9781527523098". The Sixties. 13 (2): 162–164. doi:10.1080/17541328.2020.1830576.
  11. ↑ Mehta, Julie; Mehta, Harish, eds. (2025). Between homelands in Michael Ondaatje's fiction. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN 978-1032865874.
  12. ↑ Mehta, Harish C. (2012). "Soviet Biscuit Factories and Chinese Financial Grants: North Vietnam's Economic Diplomacy in 1967 and 1968*". Diplomatic History. 36 (2): 301–335. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7709.2011.01024.x.
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