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All Parties Conference, 44
All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC), 277, 314, 342, 349
All Tripura Tiger Force, 197
Alling, Paul H., 110
Almaty, 330
Almelo, 231
Ambassador’s Journal, 170
Ambedkar, Bhimrao Ramji, 54, 67
America and Americans, see United States
Amjad, Syed Muhammad, 312
Amin, Hafizullah, 238
Amin, Nurul, 139, 210
Amin, Roya, 393
Amman, 257
Amnesty International, 277
Amritsar, 24, 25, 26, 40, 248, 249, 256, 423
Amsterdam, 231
An Outsider Everywhere: Revelations of an Insider, 223
Anada Math, 64
Anarkali, 397
Anderson, Jack, 212
Anglo-Indians, 51
Ankara, 384
Annan, Kofi, 313
“Ansar,” 276
Ansari, Maulavi Abbas, 339
Ansari, Mukhtar Ahmad, 30, 34
Antony, Arackaparanibil Kurien, 356, 366
Anwar, Khurshid, 117–118, 119, 129–121
ARD (Germany), 384, 385
Ariana Afghan Airlines, 374
Armed Forces (Jammu and Kashmir) Special Powers Act (AFJKSP), 275–276
Armitage, Richard, 316, 324
Arthashastra, 370
Arya Samaj, 29, 40, 41
Aryub Zazai, 380
Asian Games, 247
Asiatic Registration Bill, 12, 14, 15
Asif, Akbar, 397
Asif, Irfan, 398
Asif, Karimuddin, 397
Asif, Muhammad Azam, 301
Aslam, Ihsan, 302
Assam, 159
Associated Press of India, 117
Ataturk, Mustafa Kemal, 40
Atlantic Charter, 69
Attari, 303, 403, 409, 410
Attenborough, Richard, 25, 49, 106
Attlee, Clement, 74, 76, 77, 79, 87, 90, 91, 94, 110, 113, 125, 416
Atwal, Avtar Singh, 248
Auchinleck, Sir Claude, 77, 100, 122, 125
Aurora, Jagjit Singh, 209, 214, 215
Australia, 18, 152, 155, 417
Austro-Hungarian Empire, 11
Awami League (Pakistan), 147, 196, 198, 199, 201, 202, 222
Awara (movie), 396
Axis Powers, 69, 75
Ayni Air Base, 372
Ayodhya, 272, 281
Ayub Khan, Gohar, 288
Ayub Khan, Muhammad, 146, 345, 417, 428, 430
and Abdullah, Shaikh Muhammad, 176
and Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali, 221, 179, 180, 188, 294
and China, 188
and India, 396, 419
and India-Pakistan War (1965), 185, 187, 189–190, 420
and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), 197
and Kashmir, 155, 156–157, 170, 173, 179, 180, 185, 196, 418
and Kennedy, John F., 171, 174
and Mao Zedong, 188
and Nehru, Jawaharlal, 154, 155–57, 166, 170–171, 176, 417–418
and Operation Desert Hawk, 179
and Operation Gibraltar, 182–183
and Operation Grand Slam, 179, 183
and Shastri, Lal Bahadur, 174, 179, 194
and Soviet Union, 187–188, 191–192
and Tashkent Declaration, 195
as Chief Martial Law Administrator, 149
as Deputy Prime Minister, 210
as President, 149, 153–154, 155–157, 233
biography and character of, 156
resignation of, 196, 420
Azad, Maulana Abdul Kalam Muhiyuddin Ahmed, 48, 68, 72, 74, 75, 78, 79, 80, 97, 126
Azad Army (Kashmir), 115, 117, 118
Azad Jammu and Kashmir, see Azad Kashmir
Azad Kashmir, 120, 123, 129, 133, 142, 180, 189, 211, 215, 227, 268, 270, 276, 342, 343, 355
Azhar, Maulana Masoud, 308, 320, 337
Azhar, Muhammad Ibrahim, 508, 323
Aziz, Sartaj, 291, 295, 368
Aziz, Shahid, 287, 299, 304
Aziz, Shaukat, 337, 339
Aziz, Tariq, 342, 344, 345, 429
Aziz Khan, Muhammad, 294, 295–296, 299, 304, 305, 317, 319, 427
Azizabad, 348
Babri Mosque, 272, 281
Babur, Zahiruddin Muhammad, 4, 272, 369
Badaber, 148
Badal, Sukhbur Singh, 404, 407, 409, 410
Bahawalpur, 259, 422
Bakem, 373
Baker, Aryn, 383
Baker, James, 270
Baldauf, Scott, 376
Baltistan, 142
Baluchistan and Baluchis, 97, 226, 228, 256, 274, 286, 358, 377–378
Baluchistan Liberation Army, 377
Bandar (Saudi Prince), 297, 298
Bandipora, 3
Bangkok, 342
Bangladesh, 189, 217, 222, 227, 420
Bangladesh Liberation War, see Bangladesh War
Bangladesh War, 200, 209–214, 217, 220, 227, 303, 406
Banihal Pass, 119
Baradar, Abdul Ghani, 391
Baramulla, 3, 119, 120, 123
Barco, James W., 152
Bardoli, 37, 46
Bari, Maulana Abdul, 29
Barisal, 139
Barnala, Surjit Singh, 252
Bashir, Salman, 359
Batra, R. L., 120
Baweja, Harinder, 355
BBC, 261, 272, 301, 384, 385, 399
Beas River, 98, 154
Bedi, Rahul, 389
Beg, Mirza Aslam, 259, 264
Beg, Mirza Afzal, 153
Beijing, 147, 162, 188, 196, 200, 204, 208, 233, 295
Bengal, 55, 57, 78, 95–96, 97, 395
Bengal Tenancy Act, 1885, 19
Bengali (language), 147, 417
Berger, Sandy, 298
Besant, Annie, 23, 33
Betrayal of East Pakistan, 202
Bhabha, Homi J., 228, 229
Bhabha Atomic Research Center, 229, 423
Bhakar, Sarwant Singh, 249
Bharatiya Jan Sangh (BJS), 143, 145, 280, 281
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), 272, 279, 280, 281, 284, 300, 315, 331, 340, 358, 366, 426
Bhatiya, Vinod, 365
Bhatt, Touseef, 3
Bhindranwale, Jarnail Singh, 248, 250, 252
Bhindranwale Tiger Force, 257
Bhutan, 159
Bhutto, Amir, 221
Bhutto, Benazir, 263–264, 266, 278, 345
and Gandhi, Rajiv, 265, 266, 267, 425
and general elections, 264–265, 273, 274
and India, 273
and Indian Kashmir, 269, 274
and Narasimha Rao, Pamulapartu Venkata, 274
and Nawaz Sharif, Muhammad, 273
and nuclear program, 277–278, 285
and Sikh militancy, 266, 425
and Taliban, 274
and United States, 278
and Zia ul Haq, Muhammad, 263
as Prime Minister, 265, 268, 269, 273–274
assassination of, 141, 347
biography and character of, 221, 223–224
Bhutto, Fatima, 261
Bhutto, Khurshid, 230
Bhutto, Murtaza, 261, 262
Bhutto, Nusrat Begum, 221, 264, 265
Bhutto, Sir Shah Nawaz, 221, 230
Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali, 173, 174, 176, 192, 211, 218, 230, 265
and Afghanistan, 237, 371
and Ahmadis, 229
and Ayub Khan, Muhammad, 221, 179, 180, 188,
294
and Baluchistan, 226, 228
and Bangladesh War, 212
and China, 188, 208
and Gandhi, Indira, 223–225, 421–422
and India, 191, 229
and India-Pakistan War (1965), 190
and Kashmir, 192, 225, 227, 229, 65
and Mao Zedong, 188, 230
and nuclear program and weapons, 190, 222, 229, 230, 231, 283, 288
and Pakistan National Alliance, 232
and Pakistan People’s Party, 196, 198, 421
and Rahman, Shaikh Mujibur, 198, 199, 222
and Shimla Agreement, 225, 421–422
and Soviet Union, 187, 191
and Tashkent Declaration, 195
and United Nations Security Council, 189, 224
and United States, 185, 191
and West Pakistan, 220–233
and Yahya Khan, Agha Muhammad, 222
and Zia ul Haq, Muhammad, 233, 234, 235, 263, 422
biography and character of, 221, 224, 230
hanging of, 235
military coup against, 232, 235–236
Bihar, 86
Bin Laden, Osama, 299, 300, 303, 304, 306, 316, 317, 319, 323, 326, 355, 373, 387
Birkenhead, Lord, 43, 44
Birla, Ghanshyam Das, 107
Birmingham, 285
Blackwill, Robert, 321, 330
Blaine, John J., 49
Blair, David, 366
Blitzer, Wolf, 354
Blood, Archer K., 212
Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), 402, 404
Boer War, 12, 13
Bogra, Muhammad Ali, 144, 146, 149–151, 152, 157, 170, 173, 221
Bollywood, 396, 400
Bombay, 6, 8, 9, 10, 17, 36, 76, 85, 134, 221, 228, 310. See also Mumbai
Bombay Khilafat Committee, 27
Bomdi La, 171
Bonn, 373
Bose, Sarat Chandra, 85
Bose, Sarmila, 216
Bose, Subash Chandra, 75, 76, 77
Bose, Vimal, 89, 90–91
Bosnia, 217
Boston Tea Party, 52
Botha, Louis, 16
Bourke-White, Margaret, 123
Brahmaputra River, 159
Brezhnev, Leonid, 219, 240, 241
Britain and British, 4, 5, 11, 14, 21, 25, 28, 30, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39, 51, 54, 58, 61, 69, 70–71, 74, 79–80, 133, 141, 152, 155, 158, 170, 174, 185, 320, 331, 365, 368, 369, 379, 398, 413, 417
Brownlee, Les, 322
Buch, M. Yusuf, 119
Budap, 3
Buddhism, 32
Bugti, Sardar Akbar, 377
Bukhari, Fazi, 291
Bulganin, Nikolai, 152
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, 289
Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms and Tobacco (US), 261
Burma, 158, 159, 163
Burrow, Sir John, 84
Bush, George Herbert Walker, 210, 328
Bush, George W., 3, 316, 317, 322, 323–324, 325, 328, 329, 332, 353, 373, 375, 376, 379, 380
Butt, Ziauddin, 304, 305
Bux, Illahi, 130, 131
Calcutta, 7, 10, 27, 36, 40, 47, 83–84, 103, 105, 139, 198, 201, 203. See also Kolkata
Cameron, David, 390
Camp Bonifas, 1
Canada, 18, 293, 379, 427, 431
Cape Colony, 16
Caroe, Olaf, 159, 160
Carter, Jimmy, 237, 238, 239, 240, 310, 422
Casey, William, 241
Cawthorne, Robert, 197
Celeste, Richard, 310
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 174, 197, 206, 210, 238, 239, 241, 245, 255, 262, 284, 286, 303, 316, 326, 329, 336, 338, 356, 382, 429
Central Khilafat Committee, 32, 33, 35, 36
Central Legislative Assembly, 40, 43, 58
Central Treaty Organization (CENTO), 146, 417
Ceylon, see Sri Lanka
Chagai Hills, 286
Chagai II, 288
Chambeli (movie), 399
Chamberlain, Neville, 67
Chamdo, 160
Champaran, 18, 19, 23
Champaran Agrarian Law, 23
Chandigarh, 252, 402, 403
Chandrashekhar, Maradadam, 271
Chattopadhyay, Bankim Chandra, 64
Chaudhuri, Jayanto Nath, 183
Chaudhry, Iftikhar Muhammad, 345
Chauri Chaura, 27
Chelmsford, Lord, 24, 25, 30, 33
Chen Ivan, 158
Chenab River, 98, 99, 154, 183
Chennai Express (movie), 399
Cherenenko, Konstantin, 251
Chhindwara, 28
Chicago Tribune, 248
Chidambaram, Palaniappian, 360, 361, 409
China and Chinese, 159, 161, 162, 413
and India, 137, 145, 154, 157, 158–166, 167–172, 188, 201, 208, 233, 412, 418
and India-China War, 169–172, 185, 233
and Kargil War, 296
and nuclear program and weapons of, 184, 208, 229, 245, 280
and Pakistan, 138, 147–148, 157, 170, 173, 195, 197, 201, 205, 206, 230, 231, 241, 243, 244, 296, 312, 411–412, 422, 427
and Soviet Union, 163, 165, 204
and United Nations, 200
and United States, 163, 168, 204, 208, 211–213, 293
Chishti, Khwaja Moinuddin, 363
Chishti, Khwaja Qutb-ud-din, 125, 126
Chitral, 129
Chittagong, 47
Chittagong, Hill tract, 209
Christian Science Monitor, 376
Christianity and Christians, 5, 53, 55, 229, 231
Chugh, R. N., 193–194
Chughtai, Ismat, 219
Chotani, Muhammad, 27
Chuckraborty, P. V., 77
Chundrigar, Ismail Ibrahim, 118
Churchill, Sir Winston, 52, 69, 70, 71, 74, 87, 94, 112, 172
Civil and Military Gazette, 115, 117
Clinton, Bill, 2, 278, 282, 297
and India, 285, 310
and Kargil War, 295, 296, 297, 298–300
and Musharraf, Pervez, 311
and Nawaz Sharif, Muhammad, 285, 286, 287, 297, 298–300, 303, 304, 427
and nuclear tests by India and Pakistan, 285, 289
and Pakistan, 290, 311, 312
and Taliban, 299
and Vajpayee, Atal Bihari, 296, 299, 310, 312, 427–428
on Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, 312
on Kashmir, 3, 309, 311
Clinton, Chelsea, 310
Clinton, Hillary, 363, 385
CNN, 354
Cochin, 76
Coll, Steve, 331
Cologne, 296
Colombo, 198, 304, 305, 392
Communal Award (1932), 55
Communalism and communal violence, 6, 40, 41–43, 84, 85, 86–87, 88–89, 91–92, 99–100, 103, 105, 126, 139, 395, 416
Communist parliamentarians (India), 285
Communist Party of China, 229
Communist Party of East Pakistan, 138
Communist Party of India (CPI), 23, 145, 168, 223, 232
Comrade (weekly), 27
Conference on the Freedom of the Seas, 221
Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia, 330
Congress Party
Colonial India, 5, 7, 10, 11, 17, 24, 25, 28, 30, 34–35, 44, 52, 53, 54, 55, 57, 59, 60–61, 64, 67, 70, 73, 77–78, 79, 81, 93–94
Independent India, 141, 149, 175, 177, 194–195, 219, 228, 232, 247, 250, 267, 271, 274, 284, 333, 340, 341, 357, 414–415, 429
Congress Working Committee (CWC), 34, 53, 55,
67, 81
Constitutional Award (1946), 79–80, 81, 415, 416
Cricket, 255
Diplomacy, 255, 343, 361, 491, 403, 424
Matches: One-day International, 400, 401; Test, 255, 361, 400, 401; Twenty20, 400
Council of State, 25
Cripps, Sir Stafford, 70, 79, 81
Cronkite, Walter, 166
Crossette, Barbara, 259–260, 261, 271
Cuban Missile Crisis (1962), 169, 171, 299, 332
Cunningham, Sir George, 118, 119
Dacca, 6, 139, 187, 195, 198, 199, 201, 205, 210, 212, 214, 215, 227, 303. See also Dhaka
Dada Abdulla & Company, 11–12
Daily Telegraph, 366
Daily Times, 354, 404
Dalai Lama, 158, 159, 164
Damascus, 261
Damdani Taksal, 252
Dandi, 47, 48
Daoud Khan, Muhammad, 237, 371
Dar as Islam, 303
Dari (language), 384, 392
Das, Tulsi, 33
Datta, Veena, 223, 224
Dawn, 72, 84, 223, 354, 389
Dayal, Rajeshwar, 155
Dead Reckoning: Memories of the Bangladesh War, 215
Dean, John Gunther, 261
Defence Journal (Pakistan), 115
Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), 283
Defense of India (Criminal Law Amendment) Act, 20, 24
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), 330
Dehlavi, Jamil, 132
Delhi, 7, 8, 24, 28, 103, 205, 247, 330, 333, 363, 372, 395, 396, 400, 413
anti-Sikh pogrom in, 249–250
communal violence in, 105–106
terrorist attacks in, 320–322, 324, 335, 429
Delhi Sultanate, 4, 369, 413
Delhi-Lahore Bus Service, 290, 291, 312
Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA), 37
Desai, Morarji, 233, 236, 238, 286, 401
Deve Gowda, Haradanahalli Doddegowda, 277, 288
Devi, Rani Chib, 111
Devi, Tara, 114
Devnagri script, 66
Dhaipai, 108
Dhaka, 227, 309
Dhar, Durga Prasad, 43, 205
Dharasana, 48, 49
Dhoom 3 (movie), 398, 399
Dixon, Owen, 142
Dixit, Jyotindra Nath, 307, 342
Dobrynin, Anatoly, 211, 212
Doha, 391
Domel, 119
Donkers, Hendrina, 230
Douglas-Home, Sir Alec, 223
Dras sector, 295
Dubai, 335, 342, 346, 398, 409
Dulles, John Foster, 142, 143, 145
Dunham, Phyllis, 130, 131
Dunya, 404
Durand Line, 369, 372
Durban, 12, 398
Durga (goddess), 64, 65, 66, 218, 415
Durrani, Muhammad Ali, 260, 262, 269
Dutt, Batukeshwar, 46
Dyer, Reginald, 24, 25, 31, 33