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- Title
Book Review: India's Wars: A Military History 1947 -1971 by Arjun Subramaniam.
- Authors
Ahmed, Ishtiaq
- Abstract
The perspective on India's wars is unabashedly patriotic, but the author tries to understand the enemy's mind and praises his clever moves. Subramaniam, Arjun India's Wars: A Military History 1947 -1971, Naval Institute Press: Annapolis, Maryland; 2017, 562 pp.: 978-1682472415, £38.95 hbk Air Vice Marshal Arjun Subramaniam of the Indian Air Force has produced a book which covers India's four wars during 1947-1971: the 1947-1948 limited war in Kashmir with Pakistan; the 1962 border war with China; the stalemated 1965 war with Pakistan; and the 1971 war with Pakistan, which resulted in the latter's defeat, its breakup with East Pakistan and the establishment of Bangladesh. A lot has been written about India's four wars, including from the Pakistani side because three of those wars were with Pakistan.
- Subjects
WAR; MILITARY history; PARTITION of India, 1947; MUSLIMS; KASHMIR conflict (India &; Pakistan)
- Publication
War in History, 2022, Vol 29, Issue 4, p875
- ISSN
0968-3445
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/09683445221130401f