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Animosity at Bay An Alternative History of the India-Pakistan Relationship, 1947-1952

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Full Title

Animosity at Bay An Alternative History of the India-Pakistan Relationship, 1947-1952

Author(s)

Pallavi Raghavan

Edition
ISBN

9780197530948, 9780190087579, 9780197530931

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

In this groundbreaking book, Raghavan uses previously untapped archival sources to weave together new stories about the experiences of post-partition state-making in South Asia. Through meticulous research, it 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. This book will be of interest to specialists in histories of diplomatic practice as well as a general audience in search of narratives of peace in the South Asia region.