Sisson Richard, Rose Leo E. War and Secession: Pakistan, India, and the Creation of Bangladesh

Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1990. — 338 p.A decade after the 1971 wars in South Asia, the principal decisionmakers were still uncertain why wars so clearly unwanted had occurred. The authors reconstruct the complex decisionmaking process attending the break-up of Pakistan and the subsequent war between India and Pakistan. Much of their data derive from interviews conducted with principal players in each of the countries immediately involved-Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh-including Indira Gandhi and leaders of the Awami League in Bangladesh.Prologue and overviewPakistani politics: Image and legacyIndo-Pakistani relations: Image and legacyA culture of distrustCrisis bargainingConstitutional consensus and Civil WarThe Indian responsePakistan, 25 March-October 1971India and the prelude to war, June-October 1971War: IndiaWar: PakistanSoviet, Chinese, and American policies in the 1971 crisis