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

S Mahmud Ali, S Ali

Introduction , CHAPTER 1 The Early Treaties, CHAPTER 2 Histrionics in the High Himalayas, CHAPTER 3 The Kashmir Fallout, CHAPTER 4 Covert Collaboration in Diplomacy and War, CHAPTER 5 War Clouds Gather, CHAPTER 6 The Denouement, CHAPTER 7 Epilogue