Suchergebnisse

Partition and the Establishment of a British Diplomatic Mission in Karachi -- A Corner of a Foreign Field: The British Deputy High Commissions 1947-1958 -- Contrasting Personalities: Laurence Graffety-Smith and Gilbert Laithwaite British High Commissioners 1947-1954 -- Diplomats and their Wives: Alec and Dodo Symond in Karachi 1954-61 -- Sir Morrice James: Kashmir and War -- The Diplomatic Mission in Crisis 1970-1 -- Embassy Years 1972-89 -- Twenty First Century Diplomatic Challenges and Tools -- Diplomacy in a Decade of Turmoil 1998-2008.

Noted historian Ian Talbot has written a new history of modern South Asia that considers the Indian Subcontinent in regional rather than in solely national terms. A leading expert on the Partition of 1947, Talbot focuses here on the combined history of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh since 1757 and specifically on the impact of external influences on the local peoples and cultures. This text explores the region's colonial and postcolonial past, and the cultural and economic Indian reaction to the years of British authority, thus viewing the transformation of modern South Asia through the lens of a wider world

South Asia's political and socio-economic landscape has been greatly transformed in the seven decades since India and Pakistan achieved their independence. Nonetheless, many features are only explicable with reference to the legacies of the 1947 Partition. This essay traces these legacies with respect to ethnic and religious nationalism, state construction and the contrasting trajectories with respect to democratic consolidation. It argues that while the recent scholarship has acknowledged the enduring presence of the Partition on the lives of refugees and their descendants, accounts of its ongoing impact on statecraft are less developed. It is only when such legacies are analyzed that a fuller understanding is possible both of domestic developments and of the enduring rivalry between the two states.