1971 : a global history of the creation of Bangladesh /

Raghavan, Srinath,

1971 : a global history of the creation of Bangladesh / Global history of the creation of Bangladesh Srinath Raghavan. - Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (358 pages) : map

Includes bibliographies and index.

Prologue : the chronicle of a birth foretold? -- The turning point -- Breakdown -- The neighbor -- The grand strategists -- The reluctant Russians -- Poster child and pariah -- Power and principle -- The Chinese puzzle -- Escalation -- Strange victory -- Epilogue : the garden of forking paths.

Argues that the breakup of a two-winged Pakistan was not inevitable and that the foreign relations of the Cold War and nascent globalization had an important effect on the war in 1971 that resulted in that breakup.




India-Pakistan Conflict, 1971.


Electronic Books.

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