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The Origins of War in South Asia - Indo-Pakistani Conflicts Since 1947 (Hardcover)
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The Origins of War in South Asia - Indo-Pakistani Conflicts Since 1947 (Hardcover)
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In examining the forces that made the Indo-Pakistani relationship
prone to conflict, Dr. Ganguly focusses first on the nature of the
British colonial disengagement policy, a hasty and ill-conceived
procedure that served to exacerbate the ideological differences
between India's major political parties, the Congress and the
Muslim League. Their competing views-the Congress espoused a
secular polity while the League drew its inspiration from Islamic
tenets-formed the basis of the two polities that emerged from the
collapse of the British Indian empire. Disputes also arose over the
uncertain status of Kashmir. With the lapse of the British doctrine
of paramountcy (recognition of the British as the sovereign power
in India), the so-called princely states had to join either India
or Pakistan on the basis of geographic location and demographic
composition. Kashmir posed a problem because of its location and
because it had a Hindu monarch ruling a Muslim majority population.
This peculiar status made it the center of a Pakistani irredentist
claim. This claim was rejected by India, iintent upon demonstrating
that all minorities could thrive under the aegis of secular
government. Once set in motion by the interplay of domestic,
regional, and systematic factors, these three
forces--disengagement, ideological differences, and the conflict
over Kashmir--brought the subcontinent to war in 1947-1948, 1965,
and 1971. Dr. Ganguly provides a comprehensive and comparative
analysis of these three Indo-Pakistani conflicts as well as an
assessment of both the impact of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
on the security of South Asia and the changes in the perceptions of
that security.
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