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1971 : A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh / Srinath Raghavan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (368 p.) : 2 maps, 2 graphs, 1 tableContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674728646
  • 9780674731295
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 954.9205/1 23
LOC classification:
  • DS395.5 .R344 2013eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1971 -- Prologue: The Chronicle of a Birth Foretold? -- 1. The Turning Point -- 2. Breakdown -- 3. The Neighbor -- 4. The Grand Strategists -- 5. The Reluctant Russians -- 6. Poster Child and Pariah -- 7. Power and Principle -- 8. The Chinese Puzzle -- 9. Escalation -- 10. Strange Victory -- Epilogue: The Garden of Forking Paths -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: The war of 1971 that created Bangladesh was the most significant geopolitical event in the Indian subcontinent since partition in 1947. It tilted the balance of power between India and Pakistan steeply in favor of India. Srinath Raghavan contends that the crisis and its cast of characters can be understood only in a wider international context.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1971 -- Prologue: The Chronicle of a Birth Foretold? -- 1. The Turning Point -- 2. Breakdown -- 3. The Neighbor -- 4. The Grand Strategists -- 5. The Reluctant Russians -- 6. Poster Child and Pariah -- 7. Power and Principle -- 8. The Chinese Puzzle -- 9. Escalation -- 10. Strange Victory -- Epilogue: The Garden of Forking Paths -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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The war of 1971 that created Bangladesh was the most significant geopolitical event in the Indian subcontinent since partition in 1947. It tilted the balance of power between India and Pakistan steeply in favor of India. Srinath Raghavan contends that the crisis and its cast of characters can be understood only in a wider international context.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023)