Shock and Reconciliation? The Case of India–Pakistan, 1962–63. (2nd January 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mohan, Surinder
• Is Part Of: Peace review. Volume 35:Number 1(2023)
• Page Start: 25
• Page End: 37
• Publication Date: 2023-01-02
• Subjects: Peace -- Periodicals; International relations -- Periodicals; 327
• DOI: 10.1080/10402659.2023.2166785
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1040-2659

Abstract

Abstract : This paper examines the interstate reconciliation between India and Pakistan after the shock of Sino-Indian War of 1962. The post-1962 war political-security equations, particularly at the regional level, gave rise to a situation that necessitated India's reconciliatory negotiations with Pakistan over Kashmir. Though the rival parties engaged in a six-round political dialogue, the process ended up in a deadlock followed by spirals of armed clashes that culminated in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. The paper shows that this reconciliation process proved counterproductive because it was imposed from outside and the principal parties, in a window-driven haste and under the political-strategic constraints, could not mutually agree on to reconcile their political differences and settle the territorial dispute over Kashmir.