Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-sjtt6 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-06-14T07:29:14.432Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

10 - The impact of the Kargil conflict and Kashmir on Indian politics and society

from Part 2 - Consequences and impact of the conflict

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2010

Peter R. Lavoy
Affiliation:
National Intelligence Council
Get access

Summary

A person in the Indian state of Bihar had offered 111 coconuts and intended to offer 10001 … A large Corporate House and the local unit of the Bhartiya Janta [sic] political party in the city of Bombay offered prayers at the celebrated Siddhivinayak Temple and distributed sweets. A youth in Gujarat went on a fast unto death. No, none of the above commitments were for the well being of the Indian soldiers but for the Indian cricket team.

Naresh Arya's irate assault on his fellow Indians – widely circulated on the Internet during the Kargil war – was sparked off by what he believed to be their outrageous lack of wartime patriotism.

On 7 June 1999, troops of the 56 Brigade were preparing to take the key heights of Tololing and point 4590-meters. These were the first major Indian victories of the Kargil war, and were to come about six days later. At about the same time, Indian television viewers were preparing to watch the showdown between their team and that of Pakistan in the 1999 Cricket World Cup at the Old Trafford ground in Manchester. In the event, India won a low-scoring and generally unremarkable match, beating Pakistan by forty-seven runs. Journalists in the United Kingdom, bored with lamenting the early exit of the British team, had billed the event as something of a war in itself.

Type
Chapter
Information
Asymmetric Warfare in South Asia
The Causes and Consequences of the Kargil Conflict
, pp. 258 - 279
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2009

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×