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1971 - A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh (Hardcover, New)
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1971 - A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh (Hardcover, New)
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The war of 1971 was the most significant geopolitical event in the
Indian subcontinent since its partition in 1947. At one swoop, it
led to the creation of Bangladesh, and it tilted the balance of
power between India and Pakistan steeply in favor of India. The
Line of Control in Kashmir, the nuclearization of India and
Pakistan, the conflicts in Siachen Glacier and Kargil, the
insurgency in Kashmir, the political travails of Bangladesh--all
can be traced back to the intense nine months in 1971. Against the
grain of received wisdom, Srinath Raghavan contends that far from
being a predestined event, the creation of Bangladesh was the
product of conjuncture and contingency, choice and chance. The
breakup of Pakistan and the emergence of Bangladesh can be
understood only in a wider international context of the period:
decolonization, the Cold War, and incipient globalization. In a
narrative populated by the likes of Nixon, Kissinger, Zhou Enlai,
Indira Gandhi, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Tariq
Ali, George Harrison, Ravi Shankar, and Bob Dylan, Raghavan vividly
portrays the stellar international cast that shaped the origins and
outcome of the Bangladesh crisis. This strikingly original history
uses the example of 1971 to open a window to the nature of
international humanitarian crises, their management, and their
unintended outcomes.
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