India, Pakistan, and the Kashmir Dispute: On Regional Conflict and Its Resolution

by Robert G. Wirsing

Book Overview

Kashmir is the focal point of an acute regional dispute that has pitted India and Pakistan against one another ever since they gained their independence from Great Britain in 1947. Already, these bitter rivals have gone to war twice over Kashmir, leaving the state physically divided and heavily militarized. The eruption of massive anti-Indian violence in Indian Kashmir in early 1990 has changed the dispute, worsening India-Pakistan relations and lending...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312175620
• ISBN13: 9780312175627
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 337 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Awesome book

This is the best book I have ever read on the Kashmir dispute. I saw him on PBS last year and he was great. I recommend this book to everyone. It is informative and well written analysis of the Kashmir dispute.