Animosity at bay : an alternative history of the India-Pakistan relationship, 1947-1952 / Pallavi Raghavan.
Raghavan uses archival sources to weave together new stories about the experiences of post-partition state-making in South Asia, and challenges the existing wisdom about the preponderance of animosity and the rhetoric of war. The book shows how amity and a spirit of cordiality governed relations bet...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Oxford scholarship online.
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| Summary: | Raghavan uses archival sources to weave together new stories about the experiences of post-partition state-making in South Asia, and challenges the existing wisdom about the preponderance of animosity and the rhetoric of war. The book shows how amity and a spirit of cordiality governed relations between the states of India and Pakistan in the first five years after partition. Arguing that a hitherto overlooked set of considerations have to be integrated more closely into the analysis of bilateral dialogue, this book analyses the developments leading to the No War correspondence between Nehru and Liaquat Ali Khan, the signing of a 'Minorities' Pact between the two prime ministers, and the early stages of the Indus Waters negotiations, as well as exploring the calculations of Indian and Pakistani delegates at a series of interdominion conferences held in the years after partition. |
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| Item Description: | Also issued in print: 2020. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (247 pages) |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197520772 (ebook) |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780190087579.001.0001 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 2, 2020) |