Weakened States Seeking Renewal: British Offical Reports from South Asia (1 January-30 April 1948) (2 Parts)

The volume documents four critical months in South Asia’s post partition history as recorded in the reports sent to London by British diplomats. It opens in January 1948 with both India and Pakistan suffering from the effects of partition and communal upheavals – manifested in weakened economics and administration – and with the real possibility that all-out war over Kashmir might break out bet…