Books+ Search Results
The Cold War in South Asia : Britain, the United States and the Indian subcontinent, 1945-1965
Author
Title
The Cold War in South Asia : Britain, the United States and the Indian subcontinent, 1945-1965 / Paul M. McGarr.
ISBN
9781107008151 (hardback : alk. paper)
1107008158 (hardback : alk. paper)
Publication
Cambridge ; NewYork : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Physical Description
xi, 391 pages : maps 24 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 18, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
India, Pakistan and the early Cold War, 1947-1957
Eisenhower, Macmillan and the "new look" at South Asia, 1958-1960
The best of friends: Kennedy, Macmillan and Jawaharlal Nehru
Upsetting the apple cart: India's "liberation" of Goa
Allies of a kind: Britain, the United States and the 1962 Sino-Indian War
Quagmire: the Anglo-American search for a Kashmir settlement
Realigning India: western military aid and the threat from the north
The other transfer of power: Britain, the US and the Nehru-Shastri transition
A bumpy ride: Harold Wilson, Lyndon Johnson and South Asia
Triumph and tragedy: the Raan of Kutch and the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War
Conclusion: the erosion of Anglo-American power in India and Pakistan.
Subjects
Bookmark As
Citation
