This article suggests that the disorder which
accompanied Partition, and attempts by India and Pakistan to contain and
manage it, generated pressures that led to an (admittedly partial)
secularisation of bilateral relations between the two countries. By
looking at the evolution of the inter-dominion agreement of 1948 and
common border policing practices in the western sector, it shows how and
why peace was "produced" by Indian and Pakistani elites and officials.
