1st Edition
Cold War in the High Himalayas The USA, China and South Asia in the 1950s
By S. Mahmud Ali
Copyright 1999
286 Pages
by
Routledge
286 Pages
by
Routledge
286 Pages
by
Routledge
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This text examines elite-insecurity perceptions in India, Pakistan and the USA in the 1950s. The book highlights the consequent linkages in alliance-building efforts and the subsequent triangular covert collaboration against Communist China, especially along Tibet's Himalayan frontiers. This secret alliance had an unexpected fall-out on the Kashmir dispute between India and... Read more
Introduction , CHAPTER 1 The Early Treaties, CHAPTER 2 Histrionics in the High Himalayas, CHAPTER 3 The Kashmir Fallout, CHAPTER 4 Covert Collaboration in Diplomacy and War, CHAPTER 5 War Clouds Gather, CHAPTER 6 The Denouement, CHAPTER 7 Epilogue
Biography
S Mahmud Ali, S Ali
'A notable effort to untangle a subject long neglected' - A. Tom Grunfeld, Asian Affairs
