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BL
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632050
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| Main Entry
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Raghavan, Srinath
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| Title & Author
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1971 : : a global history of the creation of Bangladesh /\ Srinath Raghavan.
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| Page. NO
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358 pages :: map ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9780674728646 (alk. paper)
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: 0674728645 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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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.
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| Subject
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India-Pakistan Conflict, 1971.
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Bangladesh, History, Revolution, 1971.
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South Asia, Politics and government.
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| Dewey Classification
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954.9205/1
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| LC Classification
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DS395.5.R199 2013
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| Parallel Title
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Global history of the creation of Bangladesh
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