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ABC-CLIO Conflict Between India and Pakistan by Peter Lyon
This uptodate encyclopedia examines the conflict between India and Pakistan from Independence to the present day with an authoritative treatment that presents the issues evenhandedly and from both countries perspectives.Tensions between India and Pakistan are deeply rooted. Many go back to 1947 or earlier when with the partitioning of the provinces of Punjab and Bengal British India was succeeded by two independent countries: a primarily Hindu India and a Muslim Pakistan. Subsequently the two countries have fought three wars and come close to open war several other times especially over Kashmir.Conflict Between India and Pakistan begins with a discussion of the partition of India and those who figured prominently in it notably: Mohammed Ali Jinnah Clem Attlee the last viceroy Admiral Louis Mountbatten and Jawaharlal Nehru. Then in a series of evenhanded carefully crafted portraits it describes the people political parties foreign and domestic policies and economic religious and cultural pressures that have played a role in the conflicts between these nations from 1947 to the present.Detailed entries deal with towns cities and geographic areas including Jammu Srinigar and the Siachen Glacier; major figures involved in the conflict including General Pervez Musharraf; the religious divide between Hindus and Muslims; and the dispute over KashmirA thorough chronology provides yearbyyear treatment of the main issues in IndoPakistan relationsshow more