Paul McGarr publishes new book with Cambridge University Press on America's Cold War relations with India and Pakistan

Paul M. McGarr, lecturer in American and Canadian Studies, publishes major new book on America's Cold War relations with India and Pakistan.

The Cold War in South Asia provides the first comprehensive and transnational history of Anglo-American relations with South Asia during a seminal period in the history of the Indian Subcontinent, between independence in the late 1940s, and the height of the Cold War in the late 1960s. Drawing upon significant new evidence from British, American, Indian and Eastern bloc archives, the book re-examines how and why the Cold War in South Asia evolved in the way that it did, at a time when the national leaderships, geopolitical outlooks and regional aspirations of India, Pakistan and their superpower suitors were in a state of considerable flux. The book probes the factors which encouraged the governments of Britain and the United States to work so closely together in South Asia during the two decades after independence, and suggests what benefits, if any, Anglo-American intervention in South Asia's affairs delivered, and to whom.

The Cold War in South Asia offers up a truly transnational history of the Indian subcontinent and its interaction with the wider world, incorporating analyses of Soviet, Chinese, British, American, Indian and Pakistani policy-making in the region.

The book provides the first systematic examination of Britain and America's relationship with post-independence South Asia.

The Cold War in South Asia is of considerable contemporary relevance, offering important historical context to current Western interactions with South Asia, a nexus of the ongoing 'War on Terror'.

For all the information about the book visit www.cambridge.org/9781107008151.