India and Pakistan: The First Fifty Years / Edition 1

by Selig S. Harrison, Paul H. Kreisberg, Dennis Kux

Overview

One fifth of the world's people live in India and Pakistan. Looking back on their first fifty years of independence, leading specialists on South Asia assess their progress and problems, their foreign and defense policies and their relations with the United States. The three coeditors, who compare the achievements of India and Pakistan in a perceptive introductory overview, combine journalistic, diplomatic and academic experience. Selig S. Harrison served as South Asia Bureau Chief of the Washington Post, Paul H. Kreisberg is a former Deputy Chairman of the State Department's Policy Planning Council, and Dennis Kux is a former Director of the India Desk in the State Department.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521645850
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	12/28/1998
Series:	Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.51(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction Selig S. Harrison, Paul H. Kreisberg and Dennis Kux; Part I. India: 1. Politics: democratic progress and problems Paul Brass; 2. Economics: much achieved, much to achieve John Adams; 3. Society: growth and inequity Sonalde Desai and Katharine Sreedhar; Part II. Pakistan: 4. Politics: a nation still in the making Robert LaPorte Jr; 5. Economics: misplaced priorities, missed opportunities Marvin Weinbaum; 6. Society: progress and challenges Anita Weiss; Part III. Foreign and Security Policy: 7. India: policies past and future Sumit Ganguly; 8. Pakistan: fifty years of insecurity Thomas Thornton; 9. The US India, and Pakistan: retrospect and prospect Stephen Philip Cohen.

Editorial Reviews

"This book is essential reading for anyone interested in international relations of South Asia." The International History Review

"The contributors present a literate, useful, and challenging book for students and scholars interested in international politics and in the first 50 years of India and Pakistan's existence..." Choice

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