India and Pakistan: Outlining a Path towards Peace

Michael Hirsh, null; Ahmad Hassan Awan, null; Jayanta Krishna Sarmah, null

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Author(s): Michael Hirsh , Ahmad Hassan Awan , Jayanta Krishna Sarmah

Publication date (Print): 2018

Journal: Policy Perspectives: The Journal of the Institute of Policy Studies

Publisher: Pluto Journals

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This paper is a multidisciplinary analysis of the relationship between India and Pakistan. The authors contend that much would be gained by Pakistan and India if normalization between the two could be achieved. By examining the failures of past negotiations and examining current conditions, the paper puts forth areas where there exist common interests and what they believe could be a path to peace between these nation-states. The work suggests there are numerous factors that have contributed to the current state of affairs between India and Pakistan. Some of the factors are more obvious than others like the Partition trauma and Kashmir. The paper then highlights some of the more obscure issues which include anti-other education in Pakistani and Indian schools. All need to be considered as we try to unravel the knot of distrust between these two countries and look to establish common ground in areas which require urgent attention and push for reconciliation.

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Title: Policy Perspectives: The Journal of the Institute of Policy Studies

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Publication date (Print): 2018

Volume: 15

Issue: 1

Pages: 21-42

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Prof. Michael Hirsh is Professor of Sociology, Huston-Tillotson University, Austin, Texas, USA; Ahmad Hassan Awan teaches at Defense & Diplomatic Studies Department, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, and Jayanta Krishna Sarmah is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Gauhati University, Assam, India.

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[1] Akbar, M. 2011. Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan . Sydney: Harper Collins.

[2] Akram, Munir, 2011. “Reversing Strategic Shrinkage,” In Pakistan Beyond the Crisis State , edited by Maleeha Lodhi, 283–304. Karachi: Oxford University Press.

[3] Ali, Kamran Asdar. 2015. Communism in Pakistan: Politics and Class Activism 1947 – 1972 , London: Oxford University Press.

[4] Amnesty International Report, 2013.

[5] Baruah, Sanjob. 2010. Ethnocentrism in India . New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

[6] Basu, Amrita. 2015. “The Long March from Ayodhya: Democracy and Violence in India.” In Pluralism and Democracy in India: Debating the Hindu Right , edited by Wendy Doniger and Martha C. Nussbaum, 153–73. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

[7] Bazaz, P. 1954. The History of Struggle of Freedom in Kashmir: Cultural and Political, from the earliest times to the present day . New Delhi: Kashmir Publishing Co.

[8] Brown, Judith M. 2003. Nehru: A Political Life . New Haven: Yale University Press.

[9] Brown, Lester. 2011 World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse . New Burke, S.M. and Salim Al-Dia Quraishi. 1997. Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah: His Personality and His Politics . Oxford: Oxford University Press.

[10] Campbell-Johnson, A. 1966. Mission with Mountbatten . New York: Atheneum.

[11] Choudhury, G. W. 1967. Pakistan's Relations with India 1947–1966 . London: Pall Mall Press.

[12] Cohen, Stephen P. 2013. Shooting for a Century: The India-Pakistan Conundrum . Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.

[13] Dhulipala, Venkat. 2015. Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial India , Delhi: Cambridge University Press.

[14] Doniger, Wendy and Martha C. Nussbaum, edition 2015. Pluralism and Democracy in India: Debating the Hindu Right , Oxford: Oxford University Press.

[15] Ghoshal, H. 2007. “The Memsahib I could never be”, Centre for South Asian Studies, Cambridge, p. 8; cited in Hassan Mushirul (ed) p. 42)

[16] Guha, Ramachandra .2007. India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy . New York: Harper-Collins.

[17] Hasan, Mushirul. 2015. “The BJP's Intellectual Agenda: Textbooks and Imagined History.” In Pluralism and Democracy in India: Debating the Hindu Right , edited by Wendy Doniger and Martha C.

[18] Hasan, Zoya. 2015. “Tokenism or Empowerment? Policies and Institutions for Disadvantaged”

[19] Hassan, Mushirul. 2007. India's Partition: Process, Strategy and Mobilization . New Delhi: Oxford.

[20] Hussain, Syed R. 2011. “The India Factor.” In Pakistan Beyond the Crisis State , edited by Maleeha Lodhi, 319–348. Karachi: Oxford University Press.

[21] Jalal, Ayesha. “The Past as Present.” In Pakistan Beyond the Crisis State , edited by Maleeha Lodhi, 7–20. Karachi: Oxford University Press.

[22] Jalal, Ayesha. 1995. Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia: A Comparative and Historical

[23] Kasuri, Khurshid Mahmud. 2015. Neither a Hawk Nor a Dove: An Insider's Account of Pakistan's Foreign Relations Including Details of the Kashmir Framework . Karachi: Oxford University Press.

[24] Khurram, Aamenah. 2012. “Living in the Past.” In Karachi: Our Stories in Our Words , edited by Maniza Naqvi, 194–95. Karachi: Oxford University Press.

[25] Korbel, J. 1966. Danger in Kashmir , London: Oxford University Press.

[26] Lamb, A. 1992. Kashmir: A Disputed Legacy. London: Oxford University Press.

[27] Loldhi, Maleeha. 2011. Pakistan Beyond the Crisis State . Karachi: Oxford University Press.

[28] Menon, Ritu. 2015. “‘Shed No More Blood’: Women's Peace Work in India.” In Pluralism and Democracy in India: Debating the Hindu Right , edited by Wendy Doniger and Martha C. Nussbaum, 269–79. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

[29] Mills, C. Wright. 1956. The Power Elite . Oxford: Oxford University Press

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[32] Rajagopalan, Rajesh, ed. 2005. Second Strike: Arguments about Nuclear War in South Asia . New Delhi: Viking, Penguin.

[33] Sarmah, Jayanta Krishna. 2014. The Autonomy Paradox: Interrogation of Autonomy Movement and Autonomous Councils in Assam . Guwahati: Purbanchal Prakash.

[34] Sattar, A. 2013. Pakistan's Foreign Policy 1947–2012 . Karachi: Oxford University Press.

[35] Sen, Amartya. 2006. Identity of Violence: The Illusion of Destiny . London: Penguin Books Ltd.

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[37] Sen, Nabaneeta Dev. 2015. “The Role of Poetry and Literature in Implementing a Pluralistic Democracy: Writing at the Time of Siege.” In Pluralism and Democracy in India: Debating the Hindu Right , edited by Wendy Doniger and Martha C. Nussbaum, 105–24. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

[38] Sisson, Richard and Leo Rose. 1992. War and Secession: Pakistan, India and the Creation of Bangladesh . Karachi: Oxford University Press.

[39] Talbot, Ian. 2012. Pakistan: A New History . New York: Columbia University Press.

[40] Toorpakai, Maria. 2016. A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight . New York: 12. University Press.

[41] Waheed, M. “India is blinding young Kashmiri protesters – and no one will face justice.” from The Guradian , July 18, 2016. accessed August 2, 2016. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/18/india-blinding-kashmiri-protesters-justice-steel-pellets.

[42] Weiner, Myron. 1989. The Indian Paradox: Essays on Indian Politics . New Delhi: Sage Publications.