Wars, Proxy-Wars and Terrorism: Post Independent India

The objective of writing this book is to highlight India’s relations with her neighbouring countries such as Pakistan, China and Bangladesh and to show how through different wars India survives as a strong nation and to demonstrate how competently the country’s leadership had been handling the various challenges in the last quarter of the twentieth century and continues to do so in the first decade of the twenty first century. India’s independence in 1947, unfortunately, did not mean the end Indian people have been forced to bear the brunt of Pakistan-piloted wars. The present problems like proxy-war, cross-border terrorism and Pakistan-inspired terrorist activities in Kashmir have been troubling the leadership and the people of India without end. China and Bangladesh, two other neighbours, have time and again troubled India. Events like the Kargil war and the terrorist attack on India’s Parliament had to be faced by the Indians with great valour and determination. Moreover, events like the terrorist attack in America on September 11, 2001 and the Afghan war too have had many repercussions resulting in additional complications for India. Apart from the confrontations with the neighbours the task of liberating area as like Goa, Daman and Diu, Pondicherry and similar territories from foreign occupation, even after India’s independence, had been arduous. All these issues have been dealth with in this book in a concise but penetrating manner. Of special value is the section on ‘Proxy-War and Cross-Border Terrorism’. The book is a must for any collection on modern Indian history and polity.