Table of Contents
Maps vii
Preface xi
Introduction 1
1 The Modish Dresser Meets the Mahatma 9
2 Gandhi's Original Sin: Injecting Religion into Politics 27
3 The Two-Nation Theory: A Preamble to Partition 51
4 A Rising Tide of Violence 75
5 Born in Blood 91
6 The Infant Twins at War 111
7 Growing Apart 134
8 Nehru's "Forward Policy": A Step Too Far 158
9 Shastri's Tallest Order: Pakistan's Nightmare Comes Alive 180
10 Indira Gandhi Slays the Two-Nation Theory 200
11 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto: The Savior of West Pakistan 221
12 Islamist Zia ul Haq, Builder of the A-Bomb 234
13 Rajiv-Benazir Rapport-Cut Short 263
14 Gate-Crashing the Nuclear Club 280
15 General Musharraf Buckles Under US Pressure 309
16 Nuclear-Armed Twins, Eyeball-to-Eyeball 327
17 Manmohan Singh's Changing Interlocutors 341
18 Competing for Kabul 369
19 Shared Culture, Rising Commerce 395
20 Overview and Conclusions 413
Epilogue 433
Notes 437
Select Bibliography 471
Index 473