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By Abhijit Bhattacharyya 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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14883 1 HISTORIC: Lt Gen AAK Niazi signs the Instrument of Surrender in the presence of Lt Gen JS Aurora on December 16, 1971. Photo courtesy: MoD Abhijit Bhattacharyya Commentator and Author 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. India rightly claims credit for her ‘politico-military midwife’ role in the creation of an independent Bengali-speaking state in 1971, despite apprehension and concern in some quarters as India’s border areas are vulnerable to turbulence caused by China-aided and Pakistan-backed actors. Hence, the completion of 49 years of sovereign Bangladesh is all the more creditable if one assesses the overlapping physical contours of geographical Bengal as a whole. ....