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02834nam a22003377a 4500 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9789390652464 |
| 037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION |
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| Terms of availability |
Gifted |
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RRRLF, Kolkata |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
English |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
355.095491 |
| Item number |
SHI |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Shiv Kunal Verma |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
1965 WESTERN SUNRISE : India's War With Pakistan |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
1 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New Delhi |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Aleph Book company |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2021/01/01 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Size of unit |
509 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
In 1965, while India was still licking its wounds from the disastrous war against the Chinese in 1962, the belligerent Pakistanis decided to wrest Kashmir from India. To test the waters, they launched their first military probes into the Rann of Kutch between February and May; India responded. By the end of July, India gave in to the dictates of the UN and stood down the troops it had mobilized in the Punjab and Kargil sectors in response to the Rann of Kutch skirmishes. Pakistan then launched its masterstroke—Operation Gibraltar—in Kashmir in August. Nearly 12,000 trained mujahids were covertly deployed in multiple groups, each named after historical plunderers of the subcontinent. Confident that they had superior armour (M-47 and M-48 Patton tanks), better fighter planes (F-86 Sabres and F-104 Starfighters), and better submarines (Daphnes) than India, the Pakistanis expected that in the event of an expanded war, the Indians would collapse just as they had against China in NEFA three years previously. However, India repulsed the attack and cut off the entry and exit points into the Kashmir Valley by capturing the Haji Pir Bulge. Operation Gibraltar fizzled out. Pakistan then launched Operation Grand Slam in September 1965 in Chhamb and Jaurian. The resultant Indian counter-attack saw the focus shift to various other sectors—Lahore, Barki, Kasur (Khem Karan), Fazilka, Sialkot, and Barmer—on the international border. With the two air forces getting involved almost immediately, the armed skirmishes turned into full-scale war. As they had in 1962, the junior officers and men of the Indian armed forces acquitted themselves admirably despite the on-the-fly reorganization of forces, lack of intelligence, obsolete equipment, and lacklustre military leadership. What could have ended in victory instead culminated in a stalemate. Official Indian figures put the total number of casualties at 12,714, out of which 2,763 were killed, 8,444 wounded, and 1,507 went missing. |
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Military Science |
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Aircraft Operations |
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Airforce operations |
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Operation Ablaze |
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Kargil War |
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Operation Gibraltar |
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Operation Grand Slam |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
India Pak War |
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Lending |
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