India–Pakistan Relations: Challenges and Opportunities
| Author | Ejaz Hussain |
| DOI | 10.1177/2347797018823964 |
| Published date | 01 April 2019 |
| Date | 01 April 2019 |
India–Pakistan
Relations: Challenges
and Opportunities
Ejaz Hussain1
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Constructivism and the Prospects for Nuclear Arms Control and
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Introduction
India and Pakistan emerged in August 1947 as successor states of British India
with distinctive identities. India normatively and constitutionally ensconced
secularity, albeit with Hindu majoritarianism. Pakistan, in part because of its
relative ethnonational diversity, opted for an overwhelming Islamic character for
nation-building and securitization vis-à-vis a ‘Hindu’ enemy. These incompatible
state ideologies ensured that the India and Pakistan fought a war right after
independence over the control of Jammu and Kashmir1 (Hussain, 2013, pp.
109–120). Moreover, the two states conflicted over the assessment and distribution
of the colonial institutional and financial legacy; in particular how the civil and
military bureaucracy would be divided and the appropriation of the capital. In
1965, India and Pakistan fought another inconclusive war over Kashmir and a few
years later in December 1971 fought a third war that saw India support East
Pakistani rebels and partition Pakistan, creating the independent state of
1 Department of Social Sciences, Iqra University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Corresponding author:
Ejaz Hussain, Department of Social Sciences, Iqra University, Plot No. 5, H-9, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan.
E-mail: ejaz.hussain@iqraisb.edu.pk
Journal of Asian Security
and International Affairs
6(1) 82–95, 2019
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