The peculiar demographic landscape of J&K consists of three distinct geographical and ethnic groups with conflicting political aspirations. The solution must fulfill the legitimate economic, ethnic, social and political aspirations or people in different regions-Jammu, Ladakh and Kashmir. Kashmir continues to cause concern. Over the years, the problems have assumed dangerous proportions. A Pred…
The Battle for Pakistan is a historic odyssey of the titanic struggle for the creation of Pakistan covering all significant events concisely from the Battle of Plassey in 1757 till the birth of Pakistan in 1947. It maintains that the partition of India was the result of a short-sighted, unaccommodating, uncharitable attitude and the wrong tactical moves in the policy of the Congress towards the…
The contents of this book: 1. The Hindu-Muslims Divide 2. Option-India 3. The First War - 1947-48 4. Kashmir - An Obsession 5. Another Attempt - Battling for Kashmir Again
The Kashmir dispute has dominated Indo-Pakistani relations ever since the Transfer of Power over forty years ago; and it has played a major part in the genesis of the Sino-Indian boundary dispute. Alastair Lamb, on the basis of research carried on over thirty years examines the history of this dispute from its remote origins in the first half of the 19th century, when the State of Jammu and Kas…