[1] He founded the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute to promote cultural and research exchanges between Canada and India.
[3] A review of Brecher's biography of Nehru called this book 'substantial, scholarly... the best single work available at present on this subject.
'[4] M. A. C. observes in Pakistan Horizon that Brecher's book, The Struggle for Kashmir, is a "painstaking but not a balanced study".
But despite that Furber comments that Brecher's approach lacks ground research and he is more a scholar who has lived among United Nations reports in libraries.
[6] Percival Spears sees that Brecher tends to too readily accept Indian arguments for Kashmir and Junagadh and relies on Alan Campbell Johnson who is seen as prejudiced in Pakistan.