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If the war had a noble purpose, it was this - to end the inhumanity those photographs showed. While India rarely spoke about its imperative as the moral one, and few people steeped in realpolitik can shed their cynicism when a politician speaks in moral terms, and the intervention certainly suited India's strategic interests, the fact remains that in the annals of humanitarian interventions, few were as swift, successful, purpose-driven and with humanitarian goals as the Indian intervention to l
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― The Colonel Who Would Not Repent: The Bangladesh War and Its Unquiet Legacy
― The Colonel Who Would Not Repent: The Bangladesh War and Its Unquiet Legacy
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When the British left, India was a multireligious, multiregional, multiethnic country, exploited, backward, and poor from colonialism.
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― India: An Illustrated History
― India: An Illustrated History
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