Militarism in India: The Army and Civil Society in Consensus
by Apurba Kundu
Taurus Academic Studies, London, 1998
230 pp, GBP 45
As the guns fall silent in Kargil, New Delhi is preparing for the awesome and expensive task of permanently manning the previously unguarded and desolate mountainous frontier. More than two
Beyond failure of military intelligence, Kargil represents New Delhi's intellectual bankruptcy. A Ladakhi scholar in New Delhi provides a different perspective.
The Pakistani intrusion in Kargil has a
For Pakistan, Kargil may be a calculated miscalculation. India has to mask its initial intelligence failure by regaining the peaks regardless of heavy casualties. Both sides need a face-saving
The Gurkha pensioner gets less than his British government. This is colonial legacy that creates an underclass of loyal, but cheap, soldiers.
Perhaps it was fated that among the first
The Call of Nepal
by J.P. Cross
Bibhotheca Himalayica, Kathmandu, 1998
241 pp, NPR __
D.B.S. Jeyarai examines the phases of a bestial war fought under the banners of beasts, and concludes that it will have to run its fearful and self-destructive
Since 13 April 1984, Indian and Pakistani troops have confronted each other, eyeball to eyeball, for control of the Siachen Glacier and its approaches in the eastern Karakoram mountain range,
With only slight adjustments in the cease-fire line after subsequent wars, the division of Kashmir has continued for five decades. And since 1984, the state's Siachen Glacier
