Pakistan

August Voices: What They Said on 14-15 August 1947 and its Relevance for India-Pakistan-Bangladesh Confederation

Sudheendra Kulkarni
Observer Research Foundation
2017

Dissimilar twins: residue of 1947 in the twenty-first century

Author(s): 
Meenakshi Mukherjee
Publisher/Sponsor: 
Taylor & Francis Online
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10350330903361133

In this article Meenakshi Mukherjee traces the impact of the Indian partition of 1947 on the creative writing, films and intellectual life of India and Pakistan.

Rivers Divided: Indus Basin Waters in the Making of India and Pakistan

Daniel Haines
Oxford University Press
2017

Muslims against the Muslim League: Critiques of the Idea of Pakistan

Ali Usman Qasmi
Megan Eaton Robb
Cambridge University Press
2017

Why Partition survivors in the US believe it's vital to keep talking about the trauma of 1947

Author(s): 
Kavita Daiya
Publisher/Sponsor: 
Scroll.in
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Former refugees from both India and Pakistan, who spoke at a recent event, see their experiences reflected in Syrians seeking refuge in Europe.

“An Inglorious End To A Glorious Adventure”

Author(s): 
Irfan Waheed Usmani
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The Historian July-December 2008 (Vol. 6, No. 2)
www.academia.edu/385646/_AN_INGLORIOUS_END_TO_A_GLORIOUS_ADVENTURE_

This paper analyses the background of the Kargil operation along with highlighting the significant developments in Kargil (mis)adventure, which serves as a most glaring example of inconsistency in Pakistan's Kashmir policy. It played a central role in the derailment of Lahore peace process, it was also indicative of the dominance of hawkish elements over doves with respect to Pakistan's Kashmir policy. Failure of Pakistan’s hawkish policy makers to withstand international pressure is evident from the retreat of Pakistani Mujahideen from Kargil.

Bleeding Wound: Analyzing Pakistan’s Kashmir Policy

Author(s): 
Irfan Waheed Usmani
Publisher/Sponsor: 
The Historian January-June 2009 (Volume 7, Number 1)
www.academia.edu/385653/BLEEDING_WOUND_ANALYZING_PAKISTAN_S_KASHMIR_POLICY

This article analyses Pakistan’s Kashmir policy from1989 to 1995. This period constitutes a new phase inPakistan’s Kashmir policy as it was synchronized with the resurgence of Kashmiri resistancemovement. During the previous two decades Kashmir issue was overlooked because Pakistan wasentangled with many other problems, ranging fromcrisis in East Pakistan to the problems arising fromthe Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. Therefore,Pakistan was providing only lip service by placingrhetorical emphasis on the UN’s resolutionconcerning Kashmir.

Historicizing Pakistan’s Kashmir Policy

Author(s): 
Irfan Waheed Usmani
Publisher/Sponsor: 
The Historian, Volume 3 July-December 2005 Number 2
www.academia.edu/385642/HISTORICIZING_PAKISTAN_S_KASHMIR_POLICY

This article makes an historical analysis of Pakistani Kashmir policy between 1947-88. Besides providing a synoptic view of the Kashmir policies, pursued by various regimes in Pakistan both civilian and military also provides a thorough insight into all the major developments concerning Kashmir dispute as well as the responses of Pakistani governments’ visà- vis these developments. It contextualizes these main planks of Pakistan’s Kashmir policy by situating historical factors which invariably shaped its main contours.

Partition and the Practice of Memory

Churnjeet Mahn
Anne Murphy
Palgrave Macmillan
2018

Partition and the Practice of Memory

Churnjeet Mahn
Anne Murphy
Palgrave Macmillan
2018

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