Limited War in India-Pakistan: Revisiting the 24 years of Kargil War
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2023-09
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Indian Journal of Law and Justice
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Bandyopadhyay, Rathin
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University of North Bengal
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Mukherjee, D., & Arshed, T. (2023). Limited War in India-Pakistan: Revisiting the 24 years of Kargil War. Indian Journal of Law and Justice, 14(2), 397–420. https://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/5079
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In May 1998, the two most important South Asian states overtly conducted their
nuclear tests and thus marked the beginning of an era of nuclearisation in the
sub-continent. This overt nuclearisation within the region led to a sense of
optimism among scholars and policymakers which almost completely ruled out
the possibility of an all-out war between India and Pakistan. However, exactly
after a year the Kargil War erupts between India and Pakistan- a war that was
fought between two ‘nuclear power states’ and since then has completely changed
the equation and definition of ‘warfare’ between the two most important and
strategically volatile states of South Asia.
The year 2023 marks the 24th anniversary of the Kargil War, and the present
paper makes an attempt to apprise the lesson that both India and Pakistan have
learnt in the post Kargil War era, with specific reference to the techniques and
modus operandi of warfare. Questioning the very definition of ‘war’ as developed
during the Cold War era, this paper will try to look into pertinent issues how
warfare between India and Pakistan has undergone a qualitative change in the
post-nuclearisation phase. A closer scrutiny of the nature of war that took place
in Kargil points to the fact that there exists a space below the nuclear threshold
of both India and Pakistan that can be exploited for conducting a ‘Limited War’-
a theoretical prism that refutes the claim made by nuclear pessimists that any war
between new nuclear nations will escalate to a nuclear level. Using qualitative
methodology as its framework, based on the secondary literature and insights of interviews of policy analyst and experts the paper wishes to contribute a new
debate within the discourse of India-Pakistan Relations.
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14
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2
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0976-3570
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397 - 420