War and Secession: Pakistan, India, and the Creation of Bangladesh

Author/Contributor(s):	Sisson, Richard
Publisher:	University of California Press
Date:	08/13/1991
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

A decade after the 1971 wars in South Asia, the principal decisionmakers were still uncertain why wars so clearly unwanted had occurred. The authors reconstruct the complex decisionmaking process attending the break-up of Pakistan and the subsequent war between India and Pakistan. Much of their data derive from interviews conducted with principal players in each of the countries immediately involved-Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh-including Indira Gandhi and leaders of the Awami League in Bangladesh.