A History of the World From the 20th to the 21st Century

province, but action is limited to threats and warnings. The possibility that the Chinese will attack Taiwan has lost credibilit ...

It was intended to be a peaceful severance from Britain that brought freedom from colonial rule to one-fifth of mankind. The mas ...

years. The Indian army has no tradition of mounting coups against the civilian government. Instead of authoritarian military rul ...

refugee elite would continue to rule with the assis- tance of the army and the higher civil service, sup- pressing ethnic nation ...

should find their rightful place. The secession of Muslim Kashmir might prompt demands by Muslims elsewhere in India for a plebi ...

Pakistani–Indian war. It had achieved nothing but casualties for both sides, but the Soviet Union’s posture in Asia as a peacema ...

and the Punjab, resentful urban workers, liberal reformers and feudal landlords in Sind looking for more favourable regional tre ...

of civil war and that he would hold elections within ninety days, whereupon he would hand power back to the elected civilian gov ...

corruption and venal politics have led to govern- mental instability. In November 1996 the presi- dent dismissed Prime Minister ...

military did not refrain from once more seizing power. There was no outcry or support for the politicians. In 1999 Pakistan reve ...

becoming a one-party democracy. There are par- allels with Italy here. This had its effect on the Congress Party itself. It lack ...

Marathi, Tamil, Gujarati and so on – some four- teen major languages. Urdu is the language of the largest minority, the Muslims: ...

cereal production in India, proved far less suc- cessful in raising the output of its staple food, rice. Again, agricultural pro ...

retained power because the opposition was too divided to defeat her. The most notable crisis of Indira Gandhi’s rule occurred in ...

reminiscent of confrontations of earlier years. Had civilised India made no progress? Even Bombay, where Muslims and Hindus were ...

fighting continues; greater autonomy for the region may provide an eventual solution. A sea change of politics occurred in the s ...

The impact of the American occupation years on Japan was momentous. The victor was admired and America’s national sport, basebal ...

these there have been relatively few. The careers of bureaucrat and politician were not mutually exclusive, and it helps to unde ...

alternative coalition government. The Japanese Socialist Party, at its strongest in the decade 1958 to 1967, could never muster ...

himself in the eyes of the Americans by coura- geously pressing for peace when the war was all but lost; moreover, he blamed the ...