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Index
Title Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
PART I: OPENING PERSPECTIVES
1. Sighter Burst
2. A Personal Quest
3. Whither Military History and Understanding the Military
PART II: THE DNA OF INDIA’S ARMED FORCES
4. The Indian Army: Indian or Colonial?
5. The Indian Army: Coming of Age
6. The Indian Navy
7. The Indian Air Force
PART III: TEETHING YEARS
The First India–Pakistan War 1947–48
8. Holding on to Kashmir
9. Surprise and Riposte
10. The War Drags On
11. Guns Fall Silent
12. Liberating Hyderabad
13. Seizing Goa
PART IV: ACROSS BORDERS
India–China War of 1962
14. Unravelling the Frontier with China
15. Sparring and Probing
16. Ominous Signs
17. Defeat
The Second Round: India–Pakistan Conflict of 1965
18. Opening Moves: Kutch to Kashmir in 1965
19. Operations Gibraltar and Grand Slam
20. Operational Stalemate
21. Strategic Revival
The Liberation of Bangladesh, 1971
22. South Asia in Turmoil
23. Shaping the Eastern Front
24. Destination Dacca
25. Opening the Western Front
26. Attrition Battles
27. What 1971 Means to India and Pakistan
PART V: CONCLUSION
28. Remembering Kautilya
29. Postscript
30. Further Reading
Notes
Index
Acknowledgements
Photographic Inserts
About the Book
About the Author
Advance Praise for India’s Wars
Photo Credits
Copyright
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