| #4965329 in Books | Oxford University Press, USA | 1996-05-23 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.56 x.58 x5.62l, | File type: PDF | 168 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| About time--the conflicting claims on Kashmir examined|By A Customer|For someone like me who was born in the mid-6os, Kashmir has never quite evoked the strong sentiments it does in people like my father. The significance of 1947? The year India gained independence--this is the momentous event I first associate with the year. Partition--although the event's genesis preceded the|||"Jha contributes a refreshing, spirited, and well written study to the corpus of literature on Kashmir."--American Historical |||About the Author||Prem Shankar Jha is a columnist with the Hindu and Business Stan
This book is a careful documentation of the accession of Kashmir in 1947 based on declassified papers, correspondence and reports that have become available in the recent years. It provides a day to day account of the critical times when the fate of Kashmir was 'decided' in the context of Britain's geo-political compulsions and strategies.
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