India, Pakistan and the Kashmir dispute : on regional conflict and its resolution

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India, Pakistan and the Kashmir dispute : on regional conflict and its resolution

Robert G. Wirsing

Macmillan, 1998

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Originally published: 1994

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Kashmir is the focal point of an acute regional dispute that has pitted India and Pakistan against one another ever since they gained their independence from Great Britain in 1947. Already, these bitter rivals have gone to war twice over Kashmir, leaving the state physically divided and heavily militarized. The eruption of massive anti Indian violence in Indian Kashmir in early 1990 has changed the dispute, worsening India Pakistan relations and lending even greater urgency to the search for settlement. The reasons for, and possible resolutions of, this dispute are the themes of Professor Wirsing's book. Drawing on repeated field visits and wide ranging interviews with government officials, political leaders, military officers, and diplomats in both India and Pakistan, the author provides abundant new material on the Kashmir dispute's political and military, domestic, and international dimensions. The book responds to mounting international concern about Kashmir with specific, step-by-step recommendations for breaking the existing diplomatic stalemate between India and Pakistan. This work is intended for departments of politics, international relations and Asian studies.

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Maps - List of Tables - Acknowledgements - Introduction - PART 1: THE BOUNDARY PROBLEM - Entitlement Issues - Delimitations Issues - The Strategic Context - PART II: THE SEPARATIST PROBLEM - The Kasmiri Muslim Uprising - Indian Security Forces in Jammu and Kashmir - Indian Policy in Jammu and Kashmir - PART III: THE PROBLEM OF SETTLEMENT - Dilemmas of Format: The Instruments of Negotiation - Dilemmas of Formula: The Aims of Negotiation - PART IV: RECOMMENDATIONS - The US Role in Kashmir: Toward Constructive Engagement - India and Pakistan: Breaking the Deadlock Appendices - Notes - Index

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