Notes India-Pakistan Co-existence – the Historical Dimension

Abstract

There’s no dearth of hawks - either in India or in Pakistan. They wear, their nationalism on their sleeves, and are always on the lookout to outHerod Herod. They seem to believe that India and Pakistan cannot coexist with one another, and miss no opportunity to indulge in a litany of grievances, to mouth hymns of hate, to arouse dark suspicions, to pollute the atmosphere and to demonise relations between the two South Asian neighbours. The problem is that these hawkish elements, far from being confined to the extremist fringe, constitute an integral, even an extremely influential, segment of mainstream politics.