Nehru's Misstep in Kashmir

Andrew Kennedy

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511894688.009

7 - Nehru's Misstep in Kashmir

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2012

Andrew Kennedy

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We think we can adduce facts which will satisfy world opinion, as well as any impartial international body, of the correctness of our view.

Jawaharlal Nehru, December 30, 1947

Upon taking office in August 1947, Nehru saw India as poised to play a leading role in international affairs across the globe. The staggering challenge of sundering Pakistan from India, however, forced him to focus on India's own neighborhood in the immediate aftermath of independence. Partition sparked migration and massacres on an unprecedented scale: in the end, more than 17 million people may have sought to leave one country for the other, and well over a million may have been killed in the chaos that ensued. Trying to keep a lid on the disorder, the new prime minister called for calm and stability, even wading into mobs of rioters in Delhi to quell the violence through his own presence. Even so, a distraught Nehru lamented in mid-October, “[L]ife here continues to be nightmarish.” Despite the promise of independence, this was not a time to exult.

Type: Chapter
Information: The International Ambitions of Mao and Nehru
National Efficacy Beliefs and the Making of Foreign Policy
, pp. 173 - 200

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511894688.009 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2011

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