Partition of India, Indo-Pak Wars and the UNO/edited by Verinder Grover and Ranjana Arora. 1999, 565 p., $63. ISBN 81-7629-057-2.

Contents: Preface. I. Partition and the Teething Troubles: 1. What led to the two-nation theory and partition?/R.M. Pal. 2. Partition of Punjab: the women's fate/Kirpal Singh. 3. Indo-Pakistan waters dispute/Hafeez-ur-Rahman Khan. 4. Evacuee property in India and Pakistan/Joseph B. Schechtman. II. The Case of Rann of Kutch: 5. Kutch-Award: a study in Indo-Pakistan relations/Biswanath Singh. 6. The background and basis of the Rann of Kutch Award/Aziz A. Munshi. 7. The Rann of Kutch Award/Farzana Khan. III. Kashmir Issue: The Festering Sore: 8. Plebiscite in Kashmir: Indian commitments/K. Sarwar Hasan. 9. Kashmir shadow over Indo-Pakistan relation/Deepak Gosain. 10. Pakistan occupied Kashmir and Northern Areas: problems and issues/Arshi Khan. 11. Geopolitical analysis of the Kashmir crisis/M.R. Hafezneia. 12. Kashmir: the real big Hurdle/K.C. Lalwani. 13. Pakistan's foreign policy in 1990s with reference to Kashmir dispute/Khan Zaman Mirza. 14. Indo-Pak talks: reactions in Kashmir/S.R. Khan. 15. Indo-Pakistan control March over Siachen Glacier/P.L. Bhola. 16. The Kashmir issue/Mukut Behari Lal. 17. Should Kashmir Block Indo-Pak dialogue?/Balraj Puri. 18. Indo-Pak dispute over Jammu and Kashmir: an analysis from the perspective of International Law/Anil Baran Ray. IV. Quest for Security and Indo-Pak Relations: 19. Pakistan's quest for security: an overview/Manorama Kohli. 20. Pakistan's acquisition of arms: rationale, quest and implications for India/Amit Gupta. 21. The India-Pakistan strategic debate: the hold-off approach/H.K. Srivastava. 22. Pakistan and regional security: a Pakistani view/Mohammed Ahsen Chaudhri. 23. Regional peace and security: coalescence and clash in Indo-Pakistani relations/K.P. Misra.

V: The Race for "The Bomb": 24. India Vs. Pakistan: the Nuclear option/R.R. Subramanian. 25. The shaping of India's Nuclear policy: Indira Gandhi years/Mohammed B. Alam. 26. Nuclear Pakistan: India's response/Pradyot Pradhan. 27. The "Islamic Bomb" and India's National Security/Aswini K. Ray. 28. Aplomb or the Bomb: outlook for Indo-Pakistani relations in a global perspective/J. Casey Hammond. 29. India, Pakistan and the Bomb: a question of credibility/Rajmohan Gandhi. 30. Pakistan's Nuclear policy/Brij Mohan Kaushik. 31. Pakistan's Pentad-India's obstinacy: Nuclear debate in the region/Ansar Ali Khas. 32. Nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT): an India-Pakistan comparative perspective/M.D. Hossain. 33. India, Pakistan and the Nuclear non-proliferation treaty/B. Gopal. 34. Internal Nuclear threat to South Asia/Mahmudul Huque. VI. The 1965 War and the Tashkent Declaration: 35. The real issue in the present Indo-Pakistan War (1965)/K. Sarwar Hassan. 36. Lessons of India-Pakistan War/H.N. Kunzru. 37. Indo-Pakistan relations and Diplomatic Laws with special reference to 1965 armed conflict/Arun Chaturvedi. 38. India's language issue in the Pakistani press/P. Ghosh Dastidar. 39. The British press on the Indo-Pakistan conflict. 40. The Tashkent declaration: retrospect and prospect/M.S. Rajan. 41. The Tashkent declaration/Altaf Gauhar. 42. Thoughts on Indo-Pakistan relations in the Tashkent Era/Mukhtar Zaman. VII. The 1971 War and Birth of Bangladesh: 43. Indian intervention in East Pakistan: A review under International Law/Syed Farooq Hasnat. 44. Simla Pact: negotiation under duress/Abdul Sattar. VIII. Indo-Pak Relations and the United Nations: 45. The India-Pakistan crisis at the United Nations/Homer A. Jack. 46. Kashmir in the United Nations/Mushtaq Ahmad. 47. Indo-Pak relations: the initial phase/Verinder Grover. Bibliography. Index. 

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