South Asia, 1974
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on the Near East and South Asia |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on the Near East and South Asia |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jayita Sarkar |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2022-07-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501764411 |
India's nuclear program is often misunderstood as an inward-looking endeavor of secretive technocrats. In Ploughshares and Swords, Jayita Sarkar challenges this received wisdom, narrating a global story of India's nuclear program during its first forty years. The book foregrounds the program's civilian and military features by probing its close relationship with the space program. Through nuclear and space technologies, India's leaders served the technopolitical aims of economic modernity and the geopolitical goals of deterring adversaries. The politically savvy, transnationally connected scientists and engineers who steered the program obtained technologies, materials, and information through a variety of state and nonstate actors from Europe and North America, including both superpowers. They thus maneuvered around Cold War politics and the choke points of the nonproliferation regime. Hyperdiversification increased choices for the leaders of the nuclear program but reduced democratic accountability at home. The nuclear program became a consensus-enforcing device in the name of the nation. Ploughshares and Swords is a provocative new history with global implications. It shows how geopolitical and technopolitical visions influence decisions about the nation after decolonization. Thanks to generous funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
Author | : Zafar Iqbal Cheema |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780195979039 |
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Department of War Studies, King's College, University of London, 1991) under title: Indian nuclear strategy.
Author | : Scott D. Sagan |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2009-08-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 080477241X |
Nuclear-armed adversaries India and Pakistan have fought three wars since their creation as sovereign states in 1947. They went to the brink of a fourth in 2001 following an attack on the Indian parliament, which the Indian government blamed on the Pakistan-backed Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist organizations. Despite some attempts at rapprochement in the intervening years, a new standoff between the two countries was precipitated when India accused Lashkar-e-Taiba of being behind the Mumbai attacks late last year. The relentlessness of the confrontations between these two nations makes Inside Nuclear South Asia a must read for anyone wishing to gain a thorough understanding of the spread of nuclear weapons in South Asia and the potential consequences of nuclear proliferation on the subcontinent. The book begins with an analysis of the factors that led to India's decision to cross the nuclear threshold in 1998, with Pakistan close behind: factors such as the broad political support for a nuclear weapons program within India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the intense rivalry between the two countries, the normative and prestige factors that influenced their behaviors, and ultimately the perceived threat to their respective national security. The second half of the book analyzes the consequences of nuclear proliferation on the subcontinent. These chapters show that the presence of nuclear weapons in South Asia has increased the frequency and propensity of low-level violence, further destabilizing the region. Additionally, nuclear weapons in India and Pakistan have led to serious political changes that also challenge the ability of the two states to produce stable nuclear détente. Thus, this book provides both new insights into the domestic politics behind specific nuclear policy choices in South Asia, a critique of narrow realist views of nuclear proliferation, and the dangers of nuclear proliferation in South Asia.
Author | : Thomas R. Trautmann |
Publisher | : U OF M CENTER FOR SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 1974-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0883864177 |
Kinship and History in South Asia presents four papers given at a small conference of kinship studies scholars, “Kinship and History in South Asia,” at the University of Toronto in 1973. They draw upon one another and show several common concerns, particularly the theoretical importance of Dravidian systems. Yey they remain specialist studies, each within its own raison d’être. Brendra E. F. Beck contributes a study of the “kinship nucleus” in Tamil folklore, Levi-Straussian both in its treatment of kinship and of mythology. George L. Hart’s study of woman and the sacred in the ancient Tamil literature of the Sangam attempts to elucidate this literature in its own terms, and also to relate it to Beck’s “kinship nucleus.” Thomas R. Trautmann presents a critical examination of the evidence for cross-cousin marriage in early North India, attempting to determine historical fact from literary materials. Narendra K. Wagle offers a survey of the kinship categories to be found in the Pali Jatakas.
Author | : Paul M. McGarr |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2013-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107008158 |
This book traces the rise and fall of Anglo-American relations with India and Pakistan from independence in the 1940s, to the 1960s.
Author | : Kamal Matinuddin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Tracing the nuclear and missile programs of India and Pakistan from their inception, this book places an important focus on their present state. It highlights security models, shedding light on the role of outside powers in promoting or retarding nuclear weapon status. It also discusses theories of nuclear deterrence and suggests that the likelihood of their failure is strongest in South Asia.
Author | : Strobe Talbott |
Publisher | : Brookings Institution Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780815783008 |
Rich with human detail and penetrating analysis, this insider account chronicles the remarkable negotiations between the United States and India after three nuclear devices shook the Thar Desert in 1998, initiating one of the most suspenseful diplomatic dramas of recent memory.
Author | : S. M. Burke |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : 1452910715 |
Author | : Rajesh Rajagopalan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2015-08-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1317324765 |
This dictionary provides a comprehensive and ready guide to the key concepts, issues, persons, and technologies related to the nuclear programmes of India and Pakistan and other South Asian states. This will serve as a useful reference especially as the nuclear issue continues to be an important domestic and international policy concern.