Perspectives On Kashmir

RAJU G.C. THOMAS is the Allis Chalmers Professor of International Affairs at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His books include The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime: Prospects for the Twenty-First Century, (1998); India's Nuclear Security (2000). Thomas has published over 60 book chapters and journal articles.

Preface -- Introduction -- Reflections on the Kashmir Problem -- Historical Perspectives -- India, Pakistan, and the Kashmir Problem, 1947-1972 -- The Origins of Kashmir's International and Legal Status -- Pakistan, India, and Kashmir: A Historical Review -- Britain and the Kashmir Issue -- Kashmiri Perspectives -- Kashmir: The Bruised Identity -- Jammu: Autonomy Within an Autonomous Kashmir? -- The Plebiscite Solution for Kashmir: Why and How -- Human Rights Violations of Kashmiri Hindus -- Domestic Perspectives -- Three Compromised Nationalisms: Why Kashmir Has Been a Problem -- The Politics of Azad Kashmir -- The Betrayal of Kashmir: Pakistan's Duplicity and India's Complicity -- Kashmir and Muslim Politics in India -- India's Policies in Kashmir: An Assessment and Discourse -- International Perspectives -- The Kashmir Dispute: A Cul-de-Sac in Indo-Pakistan Relations? -- The China Factor in the Kashmir Issue -- The Kashmir Issue: Its New International Dimensions -- The Prospects of War and Peace in Kashmir -- Prognosis -- Beyond the Two-Nation Divide: Kashmir and Resurgent Islam -- Resolving Kashmir in the International Context of the 1990s