The geopolitics of South Asia : from early empires to the nuclear age / Graham P. Chapman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chapman, Graham.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geopolitics.

History.

South Asia--Politics and government.

South Asia.

Politics and government.

Geopolitics--South Asia--History.

Physical Description:

xxi, 333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2003]

Contents:

1 Brahma and Manu: Of Mountains and Rivers, Gods and Men 3

1.1 The Land 3

1.2 The People 8

1.3 Society Crystallises 11

1.4 The Epic Ages 12

1.5 The New Religions 15

1.6 The First Empire 17

1.7 The Hindu Empires 20

2 Hinduism: The Manifold of Man and God 25

2.1 An Unrevealed Truth 25

2.2 Cosmologies East and West 26

2.3 The Three Paths to God 28

2.4 Lineage and Caste 30

2.5 The Thousands of Separate Castes in India 31

2.6 Pollution and the Hierarchy of Caste 34

2.7 Maya 35

2.8 Caste and Hinduism in the Contemporary Era 36

3 Islam: Submission to the One True God 39

3.1 The Prophet 39

3.2 The Word of Allah 40

3.3 Muslim Law: The Sharia 42

3.4 The Spreading Fire 43

3.5 The Submission of India 44

3.6 Persecution and Resistance 45

3.7 Vijayanagar 49

3.8 Second Foundation: The Mughal Empire 49

3.9 Imperial Government under Akbar 50

3.10 The Empire in Extremis and Decline 54

3.11 The Legacy of Islam 59

3.12 Hindu-Muslim Relations 60

Part II The British Raj

4 The Usurpers: The Life and Death of John Company 65

4.1 Preface: Changing Britain 65

4.2 European Expansion 68

4.3 The East India Company 69

4.4 The Pattern of Trade and its Growth 71

4.5 Rivalry with the French 72

4.6 The Acquisition of Bengal 73

4.7 The Struggle to Assert Control 77

4.8 Trusteeship and Reform 81

4.9 The Mutiny and Divorce 81

5 Securing the Empire 90

5.1 Geography and the North-West Frontier 90

5.2 The Punjab and the Seeds of the First British-Afghan War 91

5.3 The First Afghan War: The Debacle 94

5.4 The First Afghan War: Retribution 96

5.5 The Annexation of Punjab 97

5.6 Interim Conclusions 98

5.7 'Muslim Fanatics' and the Revolt of 1863 99

5.8 The Search for a Frontier, 1860s to the Second World War 103

6 A New Geography: A New Economy 109

6.1 The Railroading of Empire 109

6.2 Irrigation 119

6.3 The Land of the Five Rivers 124

6.4 International Trade in the 19th Century and the Balance of Payments 127

6.5 The New Geography 130

6.6 The Language of Empire 131

6.7 A Necessary Understatement 133

7 The New Nationalisms and the Politics of Reaction 137

7.1 Contesting Dynamics 137

7.2 The Structure of Government in British India and the Problem of an Evolutionary Transfer of Power 139

7.3 The Process of Constitutional Concession 142

7.4 Gandhi and the Nationalist Response 149

7.5 The Two Nations 155

Part III The Successor States

8 Divide and Quit 163

8.1 Pride and Prejudice: The Search for Unity in Western Europe 163

8.2 Pride and Prejudice: Recrimination and Divorce in South Asia 164

8.3 Territorial Options 168

8.4 The Decree Nisi 174

9 New Lines on the Map 178

9.2 Radcliffe's New Map 178

9.3 The Second Partition of Bengal 183

9.4 The Princely States 185

9.4.1 Junagadh 187

9.4.2 Hyderabad 188

9.4.3 Jammu and Kashmir 189

9.4.4 Gilgit and the Northern Territories 194

9.5 The Human Flotsam 195

9.6 The Divided Inheritance 197

10 From Two to Three: The Birth of Bangladesh 199

10.2 Unequal Development in Pakistan 199

10.3 Language and Representation 204

10.4 The Military Cost of Pakistan 206

10.5 The South Asian Roots of Bangladesh 208

11 Raj and Swaraj: Regionalism and Integration in the Successor States 210

11.2 The Integration of the Princely States 211

11.2.1 India 211

11.2.2 Pakistan 213

11.3 Territorial Redefinition in India and the Emergence of Linguistic States 214

11.4 The Centre-Province Balance and Pakistan's Search for a Constitution 224

11.5 Regionalism Post-1972 in the Residual Pakistan 228

12 The Power Upstream 232

12.2 Hydro-politics in the Indus Basin 234

12.3 Sharing the Ganges-Brahmaputra Basin 241

12.3.1 Farakka Barrage 241

12.3.2 Floods in Bangladesh 247

12.4 The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Basin and the Power of Nepal and Bhutan 250

13 The Greater Game 253

13.1 Geopolitics 253

13.2 Antagonists and Protagonists since 1947: The Actors 258

13.2.1 The Soviet Union/Russia 259

13.2.2 The USA 260

13.2.3 China, Tibet and the Himalayan War 262

13.2.4 Pakistan 263

13.2.5 Afghanistan 265

13.2.6 Kashmir 267

13.2.7 Bangladesh 268

13.2.8 India 268

13.2.9 SAARC (The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) 271

13.3 The Politics of Triangles 274

14 States and Regions in South Asia 285

14.1 Introduction: Nature Proposes 285

14.2 Humankind Disposes 290

14.3 States of Development 295

14.4 Nature, Culture and Civilisation 299

14.5 The Politics of Reaction 300.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-311) and index.

ISBN:

0754634426

OCLC:

50982225