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Kashmir and Hyderabad*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Phillips Talbot
Affiliation:
University of Chicago
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Both India and Pakistan have made long strides toward stability since winning their freedom from British rule in 1947. What are the prospects for stability in the immediate future, and for their exerting a steadying influence throughout Southeast Asia?

Despite the disorganization and bitterness that accompanied the partition of India, the two young Dominion Governments have thwarted severe early threats to their internal security and have restrained their respective extremists from precipitating a war on the sub-continent. They have each proceeded with political reorganization of the largest populations extant—since the disintegration of China—in non-Communist Asia. Other Asian nations have tentatively accepted the leadership of India in such international issues as Indonesia. In an Asia hard-pressed to adjust to new conditions, the future roles of India and Pakistan may have critical importance.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1949

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* Based on a paper presented at a meeting of the American Historical Association, December, 1948.