Readings in Indus Basin Disputes between India and Pakistan (1948-2018): An Academic Selection of Articles, Commentaries, Newspaper Reports, Legal Tex

No two countries in the world had such a long, tortuous history of riparian (water) disputes as India and Pakistan between 1947 and 1960. When a treaty, fully compliant with the relevant provisions of International Law and conventions was brokered by the World Bank and fully backed by the US, successful diplomacy, between the two neighbours not on best of terms with each other in 1960.

This book is the first one which includes many critical articles written by the renowned experts. Judicial decisions in the forms of binding arbitrary awards, an objective critique of these awards and their implication and well-informed press comments published in the best newspapers in the sub-continent. The scope of this book is encyclopaedic. Nothing has been left out. Even de-classified diplomats' communications, relating the dispute have been included. They see the light of the day for the firs time.

The final draft of the Indus Basin treaty has been subjected to forensic scrutiny by comparing it, article by article to the two earlier drafts. This book makes a unique contribution to an academic study of international water law in general, as so scholarly discussed by the neutral expert in the award announced in Kishenganga Disputes and Indus Basin Treaty in particular. A study of the book, spread over more than 1000 pages (including very useful appendices) would save a scholar of this subject hundreds of hours needed to gain access to all cases and materials, international treaties and arbitral awards dealing with potentially serious water dispute between India and Pakistan focussed on the mighty Indus and its five tributaries - very decent rivers in their own right.