The Break-Up of Pakistan

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Philip Oldenburg

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Essay traces what the author identifies as the four phases of the 1971 conflict:  the initiation of military hostilities in March 1971; Kissinger's visit to Peking; the war with India at the end of that year; and the transfer of power to Mujib.

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Philip Oldenburg, Columbia University

Philip Oldenburg is a Research Scholar at the South Asia Institute of Columbia University, where he has taught political science since 1977. He has done field research in India on local self-government, and on national elections and has been editor or co-editor of ten books in the India Briefing series.