By Peter Lyon
This up to date encyclopedia examines the clash among India and Pakistan from Independence to the current day, with an authoritative remedy that provides the problems evenhandedly and from either international locations' perspectives.
• particular entries care for cities, towns, and geographic components, together with Jammu, Srinigar, and the Siachen Glacier; significant figures concerned with the clash, together with common Pervez Musharraf; the non secular divide among Hindus and Muslims; and the dispute over Kashmir
• an intensive chronology presents year-by-year remedy of the most concerns in Indo-Pakistan relations
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Shamasastry. : Mysore Printing and Publishing House, 1915 Stein, B. A History of India. New York: Macmillan, 1998 ARYA SAMAJ Literally the “society of the Aryans,” this movement within Hinduism was founded by Dayanand Saraswati in 1875. Rejecting among other matters the “accretions” to the Vedas of caste, idol worship, and ritual, adherents campaigned for the “reconversion” of Muslims and others to Hinduism. The movement’s greatest strength has been in the Punjab. ASHOKA, EMPEROR (CA. 268–231 BCE) Ashoka, or Asoka, was the last major Mauryan emperor.
Translated by R. Shamasastry. : Mysore Printing and Publishing House, 1915 Stein, B. A History of India. New York: Macmillan, 1998 ARYA SAMAJ Literally the “society of the Aryans,” this movement within Hinduism was founded by Dayanand Saraswati in 1875. Rejecting among other matters the “accretions” to the Vedas of caste, idol worship, and ritual, adherents campaigned for the “reconversion” of Muslims and others to Hinduism. The movement’s greatest strength has been in the Punjab. ASHOKA, EMPEROR (CA.
See also Awami League (AL); Azad Jammu-Kashmir (AJK); Bangladesh. References Hardgrave, R. L. , and S. A. Kochanek. 2000. India: Government and Politics in a Developing Nation, 6th ed. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt College Publishers, 2000 AWAMI LEAGUE (AL) A party, political organization, and movement founded by H. S. Suhrawardy in 1950, the Awami League (AL) soon became centered in Dhaka (earlier Dacca), gaining considerable support during and after the 1952 Bengali language disturbances. It campaigned during the 1954 East Pakistan provincial elections in a united front alliance with the Krishak Praja Party (KPP) following the dismissal of the United Front government.
