T. C. A. Raghavan

The People Next Door: The Curious History of India-Pakistan Relations

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This book tracks seventy years of the India-Pakistan interface. Events, anecdotes and personalities drive its narrative to illustrate the cocktail of hostility, nationalism and nostalgia that defines every facet of the relationship. It looks at the main events through the eyes and words of actual players and contemporary observers to illustrates how, both in India and in Pakistan, these past events are seen through radically different prisms, how history keeps resurfacing and has a resonance that cannot be avoided to this day. Apart from political, military and security issues, The People Next Door evokes other perspectives: divided families,… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-93-5277-091-5
EAN: 9789352770915
Produktnummer: 24017603
Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers India
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 360 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'065 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

T.C.A. Raghavan has a PhD in history from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has been High Commissioner of India to Singapore and to Pakistan. He retired from the Indian Foreign Service in 2015. His first book, Attendant Lords: Bairam Khan and Abdur Rahim, Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Memorial Prize for the best book on medieval Indian history by the Indian History Congress in 2017. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India's Relations with Pakistan (2017). He is currently Director-General of the Indian Council of World Affairs in New Delhi.