The British Papers
| Papers compiled & selected by: |
Roedad Khan |
| Publisher: |
Oxford University Press |
About the author
Table of contents
Preface
Readers Comments
The British Papers - Secret & Confidential.
India - Pakistan - Bangladesh
(Documents: 1958 - 1969 - collected & compiled by Roedad Khan)
The British Papers includes reports of meetings with Heads of State and Government,
important ministers, high dignitaries, political leaders, and critical analysis of
the state of mind of the people in power and their political opponents.
Description:
British Public Records selected for permanent preservation are normally
opened to public inspection after they become thirty-years old. Documents
may be closed for longer than thirty years; may be opened before thirty
years have elapsed; or may be retained in the departments. Each of these
courses of action requires the approval of the Lord Chancellor who is the
minister responsible for Public Records. Into the Foreign Office in London
flowed a river of documentation from British diplomats, in India and Pakistan,
charged with watching, monitoring, assessing and evaluating the ever-unfolding
political drama in the subcontinent after independence.
The British Papers includes reports of meetings with Heads of State and Government,
important ministers, high dignitaries, political leaders, and critical analysis of
the state of mind of the people in power and their political opponents. Also captured
in these reports is the thinking and assessments of key players in the drama, the
internal power struggle, shifting loyalties and Byzantine palace intrigues. This
unprecedented trove of hitherto secret documents leads us through a well-stocked
museum of what now seems a distant time.
| DesiStore # |
PBH01008 |
| ISBN | 0-19-579655-1 |
| Edition |
First |
| Year |
2002 |
| Pages |
989 |
| Weight (kg) |
1.75 |
| Shipping Weight (lbs) |
4.43 |
| HB/PB |
Hard Back |
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The book provides an extraordinary account of political events in the subcontinent,
re-ignites old memories, reveals the power struggles, changing fortunes, and fateful
decisions that still haunt political life in the subcontinent. Taken as a whole,
these papers reveal in extraordinary detail what the diplomats saw as they looked
out from their vantage positions on the events unfolding around them and how they
forecast the march of events. In these documents, one gets to observe the clash of
personalities, the conflicts among the key players, their ambitions, their hopes,
their prejudices and their frustrations. They are, above all, a journey through
history. Future historians removed from the passions of the moment will find a
study of these voluminous dispatches far more interesting.
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