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ISBN: 9780415544573
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Price: $15.65 / Rs1,315.00
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JAMMU AND KASHMIR, THE COLD WAR AND THE WEST
by D. N. Panigrahi
Publication Date: 2009
Extent: 265 pages
The Book:
This book is a compelling re-examination and assessment of the multifaceted reality of the Kashmir problem. The state of Jammu and Kashmir had acceded to India soon after India's partition in 1947. Pakistan laid claim to it as a co-religionist territory contiguous to its own, and waged wars with India to wrest it.
Studying the spread of communism, and the varying decisions taken by the USA and Britain in conjunction with India and Pakistan Asia how Kashmir should be governed, this book makes extensive use of primary resources available in India and the UK. The author tries to locate the conflict in and about Kashmir within the international politics of the time, during the Cold War, and especially in the context of India's relationship with the UK.
The narrative throws light on the varied and salient features of the problem. These have been enriched by an in-depth analysis based on the writings, notes, minutes, diaries and private correspondence of British and Indian statesmen including Jawaharlal Nehru, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, Clement Attlee, Harold Macmillan, Philip Noel-Baker, Patrick Gordon Walker, Duncan Sandys and Selwyn Lloyd, as also public documents on Indo-US foreign relations. The story that emerges explodes many myths, while reinforcing known and unknown truths. The book will be of interest of academics and students of politics, history, post-colonial studies, international relations and peace and conflict studies.
The Author:
D. N. Panigrahi, an alumni of the universities of Delhi and London, and a modern India specialist, has had a wide experience of teaching at the University of Delhi and as research director and administrator at the Centre of Contemporary Studies, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and the Lok Sabha Secretariat, Parliament of India. He was, until recently, Visiting Professor, Jamia Millia Islamia University, and New Delhi.
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