Cold War in the High Himalayas
USA, China and South Asia in the 1950s

The purpose of this book is to examine elite-insecurity perceptions in India, Pakistan and the USA in the 1950s, showing how this fitted into the Cold War.

Examines elite-insecurity perceptions in India, Pakistan and the USA in the 1950s, the consequent linkages in alliance-building efforts, subsequent triangular covert collaboration against Communist China - especially along Tibet's Himalayan frontiers, the unexpected fall-out of this on the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan, and the divergence of Indo-Pakistani security policies along fundamental cleavages since the 1960s.