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Fierce Enigmas

A History of the United States in South Asia

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By Srinath Raghavan

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On Sale
Oct 16, 2018
Page Count
496 pages
Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN-13
9781541698819

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$19.99

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$25.99 CAD

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  1. Hardcover

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The two-hundred-year history of the United States’ involvement in South Asia — the key to understanding contemporary American policy in the region

South Asia looms large in American foreign policy. Over the past two decades, we have spent billions of dollars and thousands of human lives in the region, to seemingly little effect. As Srinath Raghavan reveals in Fierce Enigmas, this should not surprise us. For 230 years, America’s engagement with India, Afghanistan, and Pakistan has been characterized by short-term thinking and unintended consequences. Beginning with American traders in India in the eighteenth century, the region has become a locus for American efforts — secular and religious — to remake the world in its image.

The definitive history of US involvement in South Asia, Fierce Enigmas is also a clarion call to fundamentally rethink our approach to the region.

Genre:

  • Nonfiction
  • History
  • Asia
  • India & South Asia
  • South
  • General

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Srinath Raghavan

About the Author

Srinath Raghavan is a senior fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi and a visiting senior research fellow at King’s College London. He is the author of three books, including India’s War: The Making of Modern South Asia, 1939-1945. He lives in Mumbai.

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