The Cold War in South Asia : Britain, the United States and the Indian subcontinent, 1945-1965 / Paul M. McGarr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McGarr, Paul M., 1969- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cold War.

South Asia--Foreign relations--20th century.

South Asia.

South Asia--Foreign relations--Great Britain.

South Asia--Foreign relations--United States.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--South Asia.

Great Britain.

United States--Foreign relations--South Asia.

United States.

India--Foreign relations--20th century.

India.

Pakistan--Foreign relations--20th century.

Pakistan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 391 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Cold War in South Asia provides the first comprehensive and transnational history of Anglo-American relations with South Asia during a seminal period in the history of the Indian Subcontinent, between independence in the late 1940s, and the height of the Cold War in the late 1960s. Drawing upon significant new evidence from British, American, Indian and Eastern bloc archives, the book re-examines how and why the Cold War in South Asia evolved in the way that it did, at a time when the national leaderships, geopolitical outlooks and regional aspirations of India, Pakistan and their superpower suitors were in a state of considerable flux. The book probes the factors which encouraged the governments of Britain and the United States to work so closely together in South Asia during the two decades after independence, and suggests what benefits, if any, Anglo-American intervention in South Asia's affairs delivered, and to whom.

Contents:

India, Pakistan and the early Cold War, 1947-1957

Eisenhower, Macmillan and the "new look" at South Asia, 1958-1960

The best of friends: Kennedy, Macmillan and Jawaharlal Nehru

Upsetting the apple cart: India's "liberation" of Goa

Allies of a kind: Britain, the United States and the 1962 Sino-Indian War

Quagmire: the Anglo-American search for a Kashmir settlement

Realigning India: western military aid and the threat from the north

The other transfer of power: Britain, the US and the Nehru-Shastri transition

A bumpy ride: Harold Wilson, Lyndon Johnson and South Asia

Triumph and tragedy: the Raan of Kutch and the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War

Conclusion: the erosion of Anglo-American power in India and Pakistan.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-28949-1

1-139-89046-8

1-107-28904-1

1-107-29393-6

1-107-29009-0

1-107-29114-3

1-139-02207-5

OCLC:

854975206