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040			_cCLIB JNU
082	0	4	_a359.0954 _bSa42
100	1		_aSamant, Captain M.N.R.
245	1	0	_aOperation X : _bthe untold story of India's covert Naval war east Pakistan, 1971 / _cCaptain M. N. R. Samant and Sandeep Unnithan.
260			_aNoida (U.P.), India : _bHarperCollins Publishers, _c2019.
300			_axxii, 271 p., 12 unnumbered pages of plates in color : _bill., map (color) ; _c23 cm.
500			_a"1971. Sheikh Mujibur Rehman in East Pakistan has just won an electoral mandate to become the prime minister of Pakistan. Accustomed to treating the eastern wing of the country as a colony, the ruling disposition in West Pakistan is not pleased, and launches a genocide against the residents of East Pakistan, flooding India with lakhs of refugees. With the violence in East Pakistan reaching a crescendo, the Indian government is faced with a difficult option: remain a mute spectator to the savagery on its eastern borders, or take action and go to war against its western neighbour. Thus was born Naval Commando Operation (X) - comprising Indian navy officers and divers, eight deserters from a Pakistani submarine and a ragtag bunch of Bengali youth fleeing the genocide - one of India's largest clandestine operations, meant to destabilize the West Pakistani efforts to bring East Pakistan to its knees. Revealed for the very first time, here is the explosive authentic account of the guerrilla operation that went for the maritime jugular of Pakistan, and facilitated the birth of Bangladesh." --- back cover.
650		0	_aSea control.
650		0	_aCovert Operation _zIndia _zEast Pakistan.
700	1		_aUnnithan, Sandeep, _eauthor.
906			_aProc_November2020, ACH-JNU
942			_cREF
999			_c663089 _d663089