Indus Divided: India, Pakistan and the River Basin Dispute
β Scribed by Daniel Haines
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
The Indus Waters Treaty is considered a key example of IndiaβPakistan cooperation, which had a critical influence on state-making in both countries. Indus Divided reveals the importance of the Indus Basin river system, and thus control over it, for Indian and Pakistani claims to sovereignty after South Asiaβs partition in 1947. Based on new research in India, Pakistan, the United States and the United Kingdom, this book places the Indus dispute, for the first time, in the context of decolonization and Cold Warβera development politics.
It examines the discord at local, national and international levels, arguing that we can only explain its importance and longevity in light of India and Pakistanβs state-building initiatives after independence.
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<p>The Indus basin was once an arid pastoral watershed, but by the second half of the twentieth century, it had become one of the worldβs most heavily irrigated and populated river basins. Launched under British colonial rule in the nineteenth century, this irrigation project spurred political, soci
The Indus basin was once an arid pastoral watershed, but by the second half of the twentieth century, it had become one of the worldβs most heavily irrigated and populated river basins. Launched under British colonial rule in the nineteenth century, this irrigation project spurred political, social,