Christ Junior College

Normal view MARC view ISBD view

Defeat is an orphan : how Pakistan lost the great South Asian war / Myra MacDonald.

By: MacDonald, Myra [author.].
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Haryana: Penguin/Random House India, 2017Description: x, 313 pages ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780670089437.Other title: How Pakistan lost the great South Asian war.Subject(s): 2000-2099 | Nuclear weapons -- Pakistan | Nuclear weapons -- India | Diplomatic relations | Nuclear weapons | Pakistan -- Foreign relations -- India | India -- Foreign relations -- Pakistan | Pakistan -- History -- 21st century | India -- History -- 21st century | India | PakistanGenre/Form: History.DDC classification: 355.0217095491 LOC classification: U264.5.P18 | M33 2017
Contents:
Prologue: The spider's web -- Settling a score: from 1947 to the nuclear tests -- "A brilliant tactical operation": Pakistan's defeat in the Kargil War of 1999 -- The general and the poet: from the Kargil War to the Agra summit -- The assassins from afar: Pakistan and Afghanistan -- "Somebody's going to pay": from the September 11 attacks to the end of 2001 -- The attack on the Indian Parliament: the trial of Afzal Guru -- Pursuit of valour: the India-Pakistan military standoff, 2001-2002 -- In the name of the people: a short history of the Kashmir dispute from 1846 to state elections in 2002 -- The noble lie: the India-Pakistan peace talks, 2001-2007 -- War by other means: the attack on Mumbai -- Anatomy of murder: Pakistan's relationship with its north-west frontier, 1947-2011 -- Pursuit of parity: the closing years -- Epilogue: A jaw for a tooth.
Summary: Tracks the defining episodes in the relationship between India and Pakistan since 1998.
Item type Current location Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
[IBDP] [IBDP] Christ Junior College - IB
Theory of Knowledge 		IB DIPLOMA 355.0217095491 MAC (Browse shelf) Available 22000173

Theory of Knowledge

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-296) and index.

Prologue: The spider's web -- Settling a score: from 1947 to the nuclear tests -- "A brilliant tactical operation": Pakistan's defeat in the Kargil War of 1999 -- The general and the poet: from the Kargil War to the Agra summit -- The assassins from afar: Pakistan and Afghanistan -- "Somebody's going to pay": from the September 11 attacks to the end of 2001 -- The attack on the Indian Parliament: the trial of Afzal Guru -- Pursuit of valour: the India-Pakistan military standoff, 2001-2002 -- In the name of the people: a short history of the Kashmir dispute from 1846 to state elections in 2002 -- The noble lie: the India-Pakistan peace talks, 2001-2007 -- War by other means: the attack on Mumbai -- Anatomy of murder: Pakistan's relationship with its north-west frontier, 1947-2011 -- Pursuit of parity: the closing years -- Epilogue: A jaw for a tooth.

Tracks the defining episodes in the relationship between India and Pakistan since 1998.

There are no comments for this item.

Log in to your account to post a comment.