Author: Alastair Lamb
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 1993
Language: English
Pages: 368
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0-19-577473-6
Description
The Kashmir dispute has dominated Indo-Pakistan 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 Kashmir was created by the British sale of Kashmir to the Raja of Jammu, Gulab Singh, until the spring of 1990, when India and Pakistan appeared to be on the verge of the fourth armed conflict over this contested inheritance from the British Raj.
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
MAPS
The State of Jammu and Kashmir in Relation to its Neighbours
Stages in the Creation of the State of Jammu and Kashmir
The States of Jammu and Kashmir
The Western Sector of the Northern Frontier, 1899, 1905 and 1963
The Simla Convention Map and the altered status of the Aksai Chin
The Partition of the Punjab, 1947
PART ONE: ORIGINS 1846 TO 1947
Introductory
Jammu and Kashmir and the Indian Princely States 1846 to 1947
Jammu and Kashmir and the Defence of British India: the Problem of the Northern Frontier. Part I The Treaty Road in Ladakh and the Gilgit Agency
Jammu and Kashmir and the Defence of British India: the Problem of the Northern Frontier. Part II The Gilgit Lease
Politics in Jammu and Kashmir on the eve of the Transfer of Power in India
Partition 1947
Accession 1947
PART TWO: CONFLICT 1947 TO 1990
Introductory
The First Kashmir War and the Intervention of the United Nations 1947 to 1964
Inside Jammu and Kashmir 1947 to 1965
Direct Indo-Pakistani discussions and the Intrusion of the Cold War 1949 to 1965
The Second Kashmir War of 1965
From Tashkent to Simla 1966 to 1972
Sheikh Abdullah 1972 to 1982
India’s Failure in Jammu and Kashmir 1977 to 1990
Final Word
Select Bibliography
Index