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THE PEACE INTERLUDES

ANIMOSITY AT BAY

An Alternative History of the India-Pakistan Relationship, 1947-1952

By Pallavi Raghavan HARPERCOLLINS

396 (Kindle); 260 pages

Given the sheer significance of the India-Pakistan relationship, the paucity of careful and informed scholarship about its origins and evolution is quite striking. Diplomatic historians, political scientists and former policymakers have all written about the subject. However, with marked exceptions, the bulk of these works have been partial, polemical and idiosyncratic.

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