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In the aftermath of Partition and the accompanying bloodbath, relations between India and Pakistan were bedevilled by a host of problems. Principal among these was the cluster of disputes over the fate of the princely states. Nevertheless, there were other issues under contention: the repatriation of property left behind by refugees; the distribution of river waters in Punjab; and trade and monetary questions, including the valuation of currency.1 The multitude of disputes led the Indian prime minister to propose a “no-war” declaration towards the end of 1949.
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For a survey of these issues see J.B. Das Gupta, India—Pakistan Relations, 1947 –1955 (Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Debrug-Djambatan, 1958).
On the question of waters, also see A.A. Michel, The Indus Rivers: A Study of the Effects of Partition (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967).
Subimal Dutt, With Nehru in the Foreign Office (Columbia: South Asia Books, 1977), 53; Nehru to Liaquat, 18 February 1950, SWJN-SS, 14, pt I: 43 –4.
J.B. Kripalani, “Victims of Partition,” Vigil (New Delhi), 25 February 1950, 7.
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Raghavan, S. (2010). Bengal 1950. In: War and Peace in Modern India. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230277519_6
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