The Kashmir Conflict: From Empire to the Cold War, 1945-66 (Routledge Studies in South Asian History) - 9781138654518

Introduction: A "ghost" of empire, a "game" of the Cold War -- The international setting, 1945-47: "Fighting the same struggle as our fathers and grandfathers" -- Britain and Kashmir, 1947-49: "Whose was Kashmir to be? the Raja, his Pandits, Sheikh Abdullah, Azad Kashmir, the tribes or Russia?" -- America, India and Kashmir, 1945-49: "If ignorance about India in this country is deep, ignorance about the states is abysmal" -- Kashmir, 1949-53: "When the US blew hot, the British blew cold and when the British blew hot, the US blew cold" -- Kashmir, 1953-61: from "pact politics" to "package proposal" -- Kashmir, 1962-63: the last interventions -- Kashmir, 1964-66: "Soviets, CHICOMS, neutralists and West are kibitzers and, to some extent, actors in Kashmir" -- Conclusion: "A footnote to history

• | Author: Rakesh Ankit
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jun 22, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 250 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138654515
• | ISBN-13: 9781138654518