The Kashmir Conflict: From Empire to the Cold War, 1945-66

ISBN-13: 9780367877682 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 250 str.

Rakesh Ankit

Opis

This book shows the international dimensions of the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan, from October 1947 to January 1966, against the twin backdrop of Decolonisation and the Cold War. It analyses Kashmir’s evolution from a Commonwealth crisis to a Cold War dispute, documenting the first five years, 1947-52, when Kashmir made the transit

Spis treści

Introduction: A ‘ghost’ of Empire, a ‘game’ of the Cold War

1. The International Setting, 1945-47: ‘Fighting the Same Struggle as our Fathers and Grandfathers’

2. Britain and Kashmir, 1947-49: ‘Whose was Kashmir to be? The Raja, his Pandits, Sheikh Abdullah, Azad Kashmir, the tribes or Russia?’

3. America, India and Kashmir, 1945-49: ‘If ignorance about India in this country is deep, ignorance about the States is abysmal’

4. Kashmir, 1949-53: ‘When the US blew hot, the British blew cold and when the British blew hot, the US blew cold’

5. Kashmir, 1953-61: From ‘Pact Politics’ to ‘Package Proposal’

6. Kashmir, 1962-63: The Last Interventions

7. Kashmir, 1964-66: ‘Soviets, CHICOMS, neutralists and West are kibitzers and, to some extent, actors in…Kashmir’

Conclusion: ‘A Footnote to History’

O autorze

Rakesh Ankit teaches History in the Law School at the O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India.