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Towards a Ceasefire in Kashmir - British Official Reports from South Asia, 18 September - 31 December 1948 (Hardcover)
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Towards a Ceasefire in Kashmir - British Official Reports from South Asia, 18 September - 31 December 1948 (Hardcover)
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The central theme of this volume is deteriorating India-Pakistan
relations. It opens in the aftermath of the Indian takeover of
Hyderabad. This had been accomplished so rapidly that there was a
widespread feeling in Pakistan that their country would be next to
attract the attention of the Indian Army. Matters were worsened by
the exodus of more than a million disaffected Hindus from East
Pakistan to India. Belligerent speeches were made by both sides and
Nehru told the British High Commissioner, Archibald Nye, on 20
November 1948 that 'the situation in East Bengal was causing him
far more anxiety than that in Kashmir'. However it was Kashmir
which remained the major cause of tension. After a period of
relative stalemate there was movement from mid-November and a real
possibility of the extension of the fighting into West Punjab.
Fortunately wiser counsels were to prevail and the volume gives
clues as to why a cease fire was agreed extremely rapidly at the
end of December. This took effect at midnight on 1 January 1949.
There were now grounds for hope that relations between the two
Dominions would greatly improve although Nye felt that because of
likely problems with a plebiscite 'in many respects our Kashmir
troubles were only about to start'. But he trusted that these would
not be accompanied by bloodshed. The volume contains 376 documents
(with Appendices) and includes extracts from the monthly
appreciations on the general situation which both High
Commissioners sent to London. Please note: Taylor & Francis
does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal,
Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
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