The Kashmir question : retrospect and prospect /
Few bilateral conflicts have proven as resistant to resolution as the Kashmir disputebetween India and Pakistan. What explains the tenacity of this dispute? The answer iscomplex and goes to the very basis of state-construction in South Asia. India, which hadbeen created as a civic polity, initially...
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London ; Portland, OR :
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| Summary: | Few bilateral conflicts have proven as resistant to resolution as the Kashmir disputebetween India and Pakistan. What explains the tenacity of this dispute? The answer iscomplex and goes to the very basis of state-construction in South Asia. India, which hadbeen created as a civic polity, initially sought to hold on to this Muslim-majority state todemonstrate its secular credentials. 1 Pakistan, in turn, had laid claim to Kashmir becauseit had been created as the homeland for the Muslims of South Asia. 2 After the break-up ofPakistan in 1971 the Pakistani irredentist claim to Kashmir lost substa. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published in a special issue of India Review, vol. 2, no. 3. EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (218 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 020350416X 9780203504161 9780714655581 0714655589 0714684392 9780714684390 9786610232345 6610232342 1135756589 9781135756581 |
