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It was December 16, 1971 when  Indian Army  vanquished Pakistan army in Bangladesh and made it surrender. The day in India is observed as “Vijay Divas”.
Abhijit Bhattacharyya writes on the historic war and why Pakistan lost. -EDITOR
 
When the former chief of Pakistan’s Eastern Command, Lt Gen AAK Niazi, wrote in his 1998 book that “Bengalis had little chance of standing against my well-disciplined and experienced troops”, it showed the undiminished and ingrained arrogance and ignorance of the vanquished General. A military junta’s lack of knowledge led to an unprecedented disaster.
Was the birth of the linguistic state of Bangladesh in 1971 a rare accident of history? Or was it owing to invisible and inexorable forces of history? It’s the ‘geography of the demography’ that played a pivotal role, which, more often than not, has been ignored. ....

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