TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hiro,Dilip
TI  - The longest August: the unflinching rivalry between India and Pakistan 
SN  - 9781568585154
AV  - DS450.P18 H57 2014
U1  - 327.5405491 HIR-D 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Nation Books
KW  - India
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Pakistan
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-472) and index; 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
ER  -