1st Edition
The Kashmir Conflict From Empire to the Cold War, 1945-66
Introduction: A ‘ghost’ of Empire, a ‘game’ of the Cold War
1. The International Setting, 1945-47: ‘Fighting the Same Struggle as our Fathers and Grandfathers’
2. Britain and Kashmir, 1947-49: ‘Whose was Kashmir to be? The Raja, his Pandits, Sheikh Abdullah, Azad Kashmir, the tribes or Russia?’
3. America, India and Kashmir, 1945-49: ‘If ignorance about India in this country is deep, ignorance about the States is abysmal’
4. Kashmir, 1949-53: ‘When the US blew hot, the British blew cold and when the British blew hot, the US blew cold’
5. Kashmir, 1953-61: From ‘Pact Politics’ to ‘Package Proposal’
6. Kashmir, 1962-63: The Last Interventions
7. Kashmir, 1964-66: ‘Soviets, CHICOMS, neutralists and West are kibitzers and, to some extent, actors in…Kashmir’
Conclusion: ‘A Footnote to History’
Biography
Rakesh Ankit teaches History in the Law School at the O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India.
