The Kashmir Conflict by Rakesh Ankit - 9780367877682

The Kashmir ConflictFrom Empire to the Cold War, 1945-66\nAuthor(s): Rakesh Ankit\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367877682, 978-0367877682\nSynopsis\nThis book presents a study of the international dimensions of the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan from before its outbreak in October 1947 until the Tashkent Summit in January 1966. By focusing on Kashmirs under-researched transnational dimensions, it represents a different approach to this intractable territorial conflict. Concentrating on the global context(s) in which the dispute unfolded, it argues that the disputes evolution was determined by international concerns that existed from before and went beyond the Indian subcontinent.\n\nBased on new and diverse official and personal papers across four countries, the book foregrounds the Kashmir dispute in a twin setting of Decolonisation and the Cold War, and investigates the international understandi.