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In the last ten years of his life (he died in 1988) Jain wrote feelingly about Hindu-
Muslim affairs and the phenomenon of Pakistan; he was, in many ways, the most
successful popularizer of BJP views well before the party came to power. For an
overview of his arguments see Jain,
The
Hindu Phenomenon
(New Delhi: USBSPD
1994).
17.
Lt.-Gen. P.N.Kathpalia, (ret.), 'Indo-Pak Relations: The Concept of National
Security',
Indian Defense Review,
Jan. 1989, pp.116, 124.
18.
See Hussain,
India
(note 6), for a summary of these perceptions.
19.
A partial list can be found in Sundeep Waslekar,
Track-Two Diplomacy in South
Asia
(ACDIS Occasional Paper, Program in Arms Control, University of Illinois,
Oct. 1995) and Navnita Chadha Behera, Paul M.Evans and Gowher Rizvi,
Beyond
Boundaries: A Report on
the State of Non-Official Dialogues on Peace, Security
and Cooperation in South Asia
(Toronto: University of Toronto 1997).
20.
Some of these dialogues are more thoroughgoing and reach a younger generation
of scholars, strategists, journalists and diplomats, such as the many workshops
organized by the Colombo-based Regional Centre for Strategic Studies. See
www.rcss.org.
21.
In conversations with the author and others, Zia stressed his interest in a long-term
agreement with India, although one that would preserve vital Pakistani strategic
interests and its heavy moral investment in Kashmir. It was impossible to measure
the sincerity of these claims, but he did make a series of extraordinary proposals to
India that were rejected—including a desire to purchase Indian-manufactured
weapons.
22.
The SAARC home page is at www.saarc.com/spotential.html.
23.
For an account of the diplomacy of the war see Leo Rose and Richard Sisson,
War
and
Secession: Pakistan, India, and the Creation of Bangladesh
(Berkeley:
University of California Press 1990).
24.
For a comprehensive overview, Kanti Bajpai, P.R.Chari, Pervez Cheema, Stephen
P.Cohen and Sumit Ganguly,
Brasstacks and Beyond: Crisis Perception and
Management in South
Asia
(New Delhi: Manohar 1995; Lahore: Vanguard
Publishers 1996; Columbia: South Asia Books 1996).
25.
For two overviews of the Kashmir problem see Jonah Blank, 'Kashmir:
Fundamentalism Takes Root',
Foreign Affairs
November-December 1999 and
Sumit Ganguly,
The Crisis in
Kashmir: Portents of War and Hopes of Peace
(New
York: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University Press 1997).
26.
For an excellent survey of these issues see Navnita Chadha-Behera, 'J&K (& L &
D & G…): Making and Unmaking Identities',
Himal South Asia,
Nov.-Dec. 1996,
pp.26-33.
27.
For the Pakistani perspective, see Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema, 'Pakistan, India, and
Kashmir: A Historical Review', in Raju G.C.Thomas (ed.),
Perspectives on
Kashmir: The Roots of
Conflict in South Asia
(Boulder: Westview Press 1992).
28.
For an extensive review of the Indian position see, Ashutosh Varshney, 'Three
Compromised Nationalisms: Why Kashmir has been a Problem', in Thomas,
Perspectives
(note 27).
29.
For a vivid press account see W.P.S.Sidhu, 'Siachin: The Forgotten War',
India
Today,
31 May 1992.
30.
For a discussion of the impact of the Cold War on Kashmir and South Asia by one
of the chief architects of American policy during the Kissinger era, see Peter
