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Kashmir in conflict : India, Pakistan and the unending war / Victoria Schofield.
LIBRA DS485.K25 S38 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schofield, Victoria.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International relations.
- India--Foreign relations--Pakistan--1984-.
- India.
- Pakistan.
- India--Foreign relations--Pakistan--1947-1984.
- Jammu and Kashmir (India)--History--19th century.
- Jammu and Kashmir (India).
- Jammu and Kashmir (India)--History--20th century.
- India--Foreign relations--Pakistan.
- Pakistan--Foreign relations--India.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 297 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- New edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2003.
- Summary:
- Why has the valley of Kashmir, famed for its beauty and tranquility, become a major flashpoint, threatening the stability of a region of great strategic importance to pose a nuclear threat for the entire world? This book examines the Kashmir conflict in its historical context, from the period when the valley was an independent kingdom right up to the struggles of the present day. Drawing upon research in India and Pakistan, as well as historical sources, this book traces the origins of the state in the 19th century, the controversial "sale" by the British of the predominantly Muslim valley to a Hindu Maharaja in 1846 and the 20th century clashes between Muslim and Hindu interests now culminating in the threat of a major war.
- Notes:
- Originally published: 2000.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-286) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1860648983
- OCLC:
- 50937669
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