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Author McGarr, Paul M., 1969-

Title The Cold War in South Asia : Britain, the United States and the Indian Subcontinent, 1945-1965 / Paul M. McGarr
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 391 pages)
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
Summary "The Cold War in South Asia provides the first comprehensive and transnational history of Anglo-American relations with South Asia during a seminal period in the history of the Indian Subcontinent, between independence in the late 1940s, and the height of the Cold War in the late 1960s. Drawing upon significant new evidence from British, American, Indian and Eastern bloc archives, the book re-examines how and why the Cold War in South Asia evolved in the way that it did, at a time when the national leaderships, geopolitical outlooks and regional aspirations of India, Pakistan and their superpower suitors were in a state of considerable flux. The book probes the factors which encouraged the governments of Britain and the United States to work so closely together in South Asia during the two decades after independence, and suggests what benefits, if any, Anglo-American intervention in South Asia's affairs delivered, and to whom"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-478) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Cold War.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
Diplomatic relations
Au€enpolitik.
Ost-West-Konflikt
SUBJECT South Asia -- Foreign relations -- 20th century
South Asia -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain
South Asia -- Foreign relations -- United States
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- South Asia
United States -- Foreign relations -- South Asia
India -- Foreign relations -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006001161
Pakistan -- Foreign relations -- 20th century
Subject Great Britain
India
Pakistan
South Asia
United States
Gro€britannien.
USA
Südasien
Indien
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