Bangladesh: humiliation, carnage, liberation, chaos (Record no. 360718)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789365473360
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Transcribing agency AACR-II
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 954.9205 MAL
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Malhotra, Iqbal Chand
9 (RLIN) 18771
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Title Bangladesh: humiliation, carnage, liberation, chaos
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Nodia
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. BluOne Ink
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2026
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 354p.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. The roots of the conflict between East and West Pakistan go back to the traumatic partition of the subcontinent in 1947. Pakistan was united by religion but divided by language and culture—fault lines that soon metastasized into repeated humiliations and injustices. As protests erupted, the Pakistan Army unleashed a brutal campaign to silence dissent: three million people were killed, over 200,000 women were subjected to sexual violence, and ten million refugees fled to India, all for demanding autonomy.<br/>The silence of the international community was deafening. The US and China, openly tilting towards Pakistan, did nothing to halt the unfolding genocide. The subcontinent had become the epicentre of a superpower contest.<br/>India stood isolated.<br/>Impoverished and destabilized by left-wing insurgency yet morally steadfast, Indira Gandhi’s India—working in close coordination with Tajuddin Ahmad, Bangladesh’s first PM, and the resolute Mukti Bahini—waged a covert struggle for nine months. This culminated in a swift thirteen-day military campaign that broke the Pakistan Army, resulted in the capture of 93,000 prisoners of war, and delivered Bangladesh in one of history’s fastest and most decisive liberations.<br/>All arms of the Indian state and Bangladesh’s government-in-exile had worked in perfect unison to deliver a glorious victory, yet peace proved fragile. Chaos followed almost immediately after independence, and nearly all the central figures of the struggle were eventually assassinated in a spiral of senseless violence.<br/>Half a century later, as the same hatreds of language, identity, and faith erupt again, the ghosts of 1971 return—not as memory, but as warning.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Bangladesh History
9 (RLIN) 18772
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Liberation and Subsequent Period in Bangladesh
9 (RLIN) 18773
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Political History of Bangladesh
9 (RLIN) 18774
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Chattopadhyay, Subroto
9 (RLIN) 18775
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Date last seen Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date due Date last checked out Price effective from Koha item type Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Withdrawn status Home library Current library Date acquired Cost, normal purchase price
2026-04-06 1 954.9205 MAL 185878 2026-06-05 2026-04-06 2026-04-02 Books Not Missing Dewey Decimal Classification Not Damaged     Gandhi Smriti Library Gandhi Smriti Library 2026-04-02 899.00

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