The escalating tensions between India and Pakistan have received renewed attention of late. Since their genesis in 1947, the nations of India and Pakistan have been locked in a seemingly endless spiral of hostility over the disputed territory of Kashmir. Ganguly asserts that the two nations remain mired in conflict due to inherent features of their nationalist agendas. Indian nationalist leadership chose to hold on to this Muslim-majority state to prove that minorities could thrive in a plural, secular polity. Pakistani nationalists argued with equal force that they could not part with Kashmir as part of the homeland created for the Muslims of South Asia. Ganguly authoritatively analyzes why hostility persists even after the dissipation of the pristine ideological visions of the two states and discusses their dual path to overt acquisition of nuclear weapons, as well as the current prospects for war and peace in the region.

Conflict Unending: India-Pakistan Relations since 1947

Politics & Social Sciences

SUMIT GANGULY

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

Treading On Hallowed Ground: Counterinsurgency Operations In Sacred Spaces

In this second edition of the only comprehensive and comparative study of the three Indo-Pakistani conflicts, Sumit Ganguly deepens his exploration of the causes and consequences of these clashes. Reassessing the origins of war in South Asia and ongoing ethnic strife in the region, he identifies and examines key developments, including shifts in policymaking necessitated by the collapse of the Soviet Union and the incipient nuclear weapons programs of both India and Pakistan.Ganguly incorporates recently published as well as newly declassified material in this edition and has written a new chapter on the origins, nature, and likely future of the insurgency in Kashmir.

The Origins of War in South Asia: Indo-Pakistani Conflicts Since 1947

History

Asia

Westview Press

The Sino-indian Rivalry (south Asia Edition)

William R. Thompson

Manjeet S. Pardesi

India Since 1980

Rahul Mukherji

Cambridge University Press

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