Penderel Moon
The three and a half years of Lord Wavell’s Viceroyalty from October 1943 to March 1947 was probably the most difficult and momentous period of office that any Viceroy has had to face.
Reviewed by: Uma Iyengar
Biplab Dasgupta and W.O. Morris-Jones
Election behaviour has been taken as an important component of political behaviour and therefore much research attention has been directed towards
Reviewed by: Kuldeep Mathur
B.B. Misra
The behaviour of Indian political parties in pre-independence days is no doubt fascinating, though only of academic interest. If one is to write about events which occurred half a century and more ago, it is inevitable that one must turn to official and other documents to be found in archives, British and Indian…
Reviewed by: K. Rangaswamy
Maya Tudor
Most comparisons of India and Pakistan are defined by which side of the border (or the Line of Control) you are standing on, and are often heavily rhetorically loaded: Pakistan as a failed army-state overrun by radicals and terrorists, India as a corrupt, unmanageable confederacy grappling with poverty and insurgencies.
Reviewed by: A. Gangatharan
Stephen P. Cohen
Professor Cohen’s writings on the India and Pakistan have always elicited great debate in both the countries since his first work on the subject.
Reviewed by: D. Suba Chandran
Ejaz Hussain
There are many accounts by now of the military’s role in politics in Pakistan. Ejaz Hussain’s volume is a welcome addition to that. The primary objective of the volume is to build a model of civil-military relations applicable to the case of Pakistan which should explain the causes and mode of military intervention as well as the nature of military rule.
Reviewed by: Ajay Darshan Behera