TY - GEN AU - Zakaria, Anam TI - 1971: : a people's history from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India SN - 9780670090129 U1 - 954.92051 PY - 2019/// CY - India PB - Vintage (Penguin Random House) N1 - Include Acknowledgements, Notes & index N2 - The year 1971 exists everywhere in Bangladesh-on its roads, in sculptures, in its museums and oral history projects, in its curriculum, in people's homes and their stories, and in political discourse. It marks the birth of the nation, it's liberation. More than 1000 miles away, in Pakistan too, 1971 marks a watershed moment, its memories sitting uncomfortably in public imagination. It is remembered as the 'Fall of Dacca', the dismemberment of Pakistan or the third Indo-Pak war. In India, 1971 represents something else-the story of humanitarian intervention, of triumph and valour that paved the way for India's rise as a military power, the beginning of its journey to becoming a regional superpower ER -