The prospects and perils of India's new diplomacy
The prospects and perils of India’s new diplomacy © Sounak Mukherjee The prospects and perils of India’s new diplomacy In February 1833, Agha Hasan Jan stood before the great Persian crown-prince Abbas Mirza’s court at Meshad, armed with nothing but words. Abbas Mirza had long been plotting to plant his flag over Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s Kashmir; the young Kashmiri’s job was to somehow frighten him. Even the floors of the Maharaja’s tented camp, Agha Hasan claimed, were covered with fine Kashmiri shawls, and, “as for his army, if Sardar Hari Singh, his commander-in-chief, were...
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