| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Andrew J. Rotter. Comrades at Odds: The United States and India, 1947–1964. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2000. Pp. xxix, 337. Cloth $55.00, paper $19.95.

India has been the object of fairly extensive attention in the historiography of U.S. foreign relations, more attention than might be expected, given the sporadic nature of the dealings between the two countries. What the country offers, however, is sharp difference combined with linguistic accessibility at the elite level. The originality of Andrew J. Rotter's work lies in the determined effort to situate and explicate the relationship from a cultural perspective. An agreeable read, his book provides a great many probing observations on such varying matters as smell, space, family, and truth, along with assessments of their effect on the way policy was conceived and carried out. It is with some considerable consternation that one notes Rotter's retrospective account of the U.S. preference for the manly, monotheistic, and militaristically dapper rulers of Islamic Pakistan over the supposedly passive, feminine, superstitious, and relativistic mystics who ran the incomprehensible haze known as India, apparently a place of overpowering stench and irrationality. Celebrations of martial people for their adherence to a single god and single truth perhaps ring a little differently today, though not of course the appreciation for ruling Pakistani generals. It is a pity that Rotter, for reasons in themselves entirely understandable and legitimate, could not extend his inquiry further into the looming presence of Pakistan in these proceedings. (He notes, in passing, that when push actually came to shove, it was India that emerged victorious in the wars against Pakistan in 1965 and 1971.) . . .

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