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100	1		_aSingh, Jaswant, _d1938-
245	1	0	_aJinnah _h[Book] : _bIndia, Partition, Independence / _cJaswant Singh.
260			_aDelhi : _bRupa & Co., _cc2009.
300			_axvi, 669 p. : _bill., 1 map ; _c25 cm.
500			_aFirst published by Rupa & Co., New Delhi 2009.
520			_a The book attempts an objective evaluation. Jaswant Singh s experience as a minister responsible for the conduct of India s foreign policy, managing the country s defence (concurrently), had been uniformly challenging (Lahore Peace Process; betrayed at Kargil; Kandahar; The Agra Peace Summit; the attack on Jammu and Kashmir Assembly and the Indian Parliament; coercive diplomacy of 2002; the peace overtures reinitiated in April 2003). He asks where and when did this questionable thesis of Muslims as a separate nation first originate and lead the Indian sub-continent to? And where did it drag Pakistan to? Why then a Bangladesh? Also what now of Pakistan? Where is it headed? This book is special; it stands apart, for it is authored by a practitioner of policy, an innovator of policies in search of definitive answers. Those burning whys of the last sixty-two years, which bedevil us still. Jaswant Singh believes that for the return of lasting peace in South Asia there is no alternative but to first understand what made it abandon us in the first place. Until we do that, a minimum, a must, we will never be able to persuade peace to return. (From book jacket).
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650		0	_aPoliticians _zIndia _vBiography.
650		0	_aPakistan movement _xHistory.
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