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100 1 _aMcGarr, Paul M.,
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245 1 0 _aThe Cold War in South Asia :
_bBritain, the United States and the Indian Subcontinent, 1945-1965 /
_cPaul M. McGarr.
260 _aCambridge ;
_aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c(c)2013.
300 _a1 online resource (xi, 391 pages)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _aIndia, Pakistan and the early Cold War, 1947-1957 --
_tEisenhower, Macmillan and the "new look" at South Asia, 1958-1960 --
_tThe best of friends: Kennedy, Macmillan and Jawaharlal Nehru --
_tUpsetting the apple cart: India's "liberation" of Goa --
_tAllies of a kind: Britain, the United States and the 1962 Sino-Indian War --
_tQuagmire: the Anglo-American search for a Kashmir settlement --
_tRealigning India: western military aid and the threat from the north --
_tThe other transfer of power: Britain, the US and the Nehru-Shastri transition --
_tA bumpy ride: Harold Wilson, Lyndon Johnson and South Asia --
_tTriumph and tragedy: the Raan of Kutch and the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War --
_tConclusion: the erosion of Anglo-American power in India and Pakistan.
520 0 _a"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.
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650 0 _aCold War.
650 4 _aGreat Britain
_xForeign relations
_zSouth Asia.
650 4 _aIndia
_xForeign relations
_y20th century.
650 4 _aPakistan
_xForeign relations
_y20th century.
650 4 _aSouth Asia
_xForeign relations
_y20th century.
650 4 _aSouth Asia
_xForeign relations
_zGreat Britain.
650 4 _aSouth Asia
_xForeign relations
_zUnited States.
650 4 _aUnited States
_xForeign relations
_zSouth Asia.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
856 4 0 _uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=604620&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
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_dCynthia Snell