Cold War in South Asia - Britain, the United States and the Indian Subcontinent, 1945-1965

This book traces the rise and fall of Anglo-American relations with India and Pakistan from independence in the 1940s, to the 1960s.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. India, Pakistan and the early Cold War, 1947-57; 2. Eisenhower, Macmillan and the 'New Look' at South Asia, 1958-60; 3. The best of friends: Kennedy, Macmillan and Jawaharlal Nehru; 4. Upsetting the apple cart: India's 'liberation' of Goa; 5. Allies of a kind: Britain, the United States and the 1962 Sino-Indian War; 6. Quagmire: the Anglo-American search for a Kashmir settlement; 7. Realigning India: Western military aid and the threat from the north; 8. The other transfer of power: Britain, the US and the Nehru-Shastri Transition; 9. A bumpy ride: Harold Wilson, Lyndon Johnson and South Asia; 10. Triumph and tragedy: the Raan of Kutch and the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War; Conclusion: the erosion of Anglo-American power in India and Pakistan; Select bibliography.

About the author

Paul McGarr is Lecturer in US Foreign Policy in the Department of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham. He has published widely on aspects of transnational politics, economics, defence, intelligence and security, and postcolonial culture.

Summary

This transnational history of the rise and fall of Anglo-American relations with India and Pakistan during the Cold War offers a new multidisciplinary perspective on the seminal post-independence period. Drawing on unpublished British, American, Indian and Soviet archival records it examines what benefits, if any, intervention conferred, and to whom.

Product details

• Authors: PAUL MCGARR, Paul M. McGarr, Paul M. (University of Nottingham) Mcgarr
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2013
• EAN: 9781107008151
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00815-1
• No. of pages: 406
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, International Relations, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, British & Irish history, c 1960 to c 1970, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, c 1950 to c 1959, Asian History, British Isles, History of the Americas, c 1960 to c 1969, Indian sub-continent, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), The Cold War, C 1945 To C 1960, Cold wars and proxy conflicts