TY - BOOK AU - Kallol Bhattacherjee TI - The great game in Afghanistan : Rajiv Gandhi, General Zia and the unending war SN - 9789352644391 U1 - 320.9581 PY - 2017/// CY - Noida PB - Harper Collins KW - Diplomatic relations KW - Afghanistan KW - Politics and government KW - Rajiv gandhi KW - Zia-ul-Haq, Mohammad N1 - Includes index N2 - At the height of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, a complex multinational diplomacy had proposed setting up a coalition government in Kabul as a solution to the 'Afghan problem'. Even as all sides worked on the coalition, the US took steps that India considered a 'stab in the back'. With the help of the official papers collected by US ambassador John Gunther Dean and conversations with Ronen Sen, Rajiv Gandhi's diplomatic aide during those crucial years, the author recreates the falling apart of the India-US cooperation and the catastrophic effect it had on South Asian history ER -