Animosity at bay : an alternative history of the India-Pakistan relationship, 1947-1952 / Pallavi Raghavan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raghavan, Pallavi, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

India--Foreign relations--Pakistan.

India.

Pakistan--Foreign relations--India.

Pakistan.

India--Politics and government--1947-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 pages).

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

Raghavan uses archival sources to weave together new stories about the experiences of post-partition state-making in South Asia, and challenges the existing wisdom about the preponderance of animosity and the rhetoric of war. The book shows how amity and a spirit of cordiality governed relations between the states of India and Pakistan in the first five years after partition. Arguing that a hitherto overlooked set of considerations have to be integrated more closely into the analysis of bilateral dialogue, this book analyses the developments leading to the No War correspondence between Nehru and Liaquat Ali Khan, the signing of a 'Minorities' Pact between the two prime ministers, and the early stages of the Indus Waters negotiations, as well as exploring the calculations of Indian and Pakistani delegates at a series of interdominion conferences held in the years after partition.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-752077-4

0-19-753093-1