The Cold War in South Asia

Britain, the United States and the Indian Subcontinent, 1945–1965

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ID23802498
AuthorsPaul M Mcgarr (0000-0002-0684-7611, University of Nottingham, corresponding author)
Year2013
Publication date2013-08-01
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueCold War in South Asia (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781139022071
OpenAlexW628237942
ISBN9781139022071
LanguageEN
Citations received26

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.

Ancient history · China · Cold war · Development economics · Economic history · Economics · Geography · Geopolitics · Independence (probability theory) · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · South asia · State (computer science) · Superpower · History · Indian Economic and Social Development · Law · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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