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The longest August : the unflinching rivalry between India and Pakistan /
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York:
Nation Books,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- The modish dresser meets the Mahatma
- Gandhi's original sin: injecting religion into politics
- The two-nation theory: a preamble to partition
- A rising tide of violence
- Born in blood
- The infant twins at war
- Growing apart
- Nehru's "forward policy": a step too far
- Shastri's tallest order: Pakistan's nightmare comes alive
- Indira Gandhi slays the two-nation theory
- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto: the savior of West Pakistan
- Islamist Zia Ul Haq, builder of the A-bomb
- Benazir-Rajiv rapport cut short
- Gate-crashing the nuclear club
- General Musharraf buckles under US pressure
- Nuclear-armed twins, eyeball-to-eyeball
- Manmohan Singh's changing interlocutors
- Competing for Kabul
- Shared culture, rising commerce
- Overview and conclusions.