
Ep 152: The Citizenship Battles
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The Repercussions of the Bangladesh War on India
In 1972 after the Bangladesh war was over Mrs Gandhi goes to Dhaka and there is a sort of a set of things that she discusses with Sheikh Muthi Bhur-Rahman. The cut-off date for deciding who are the people who should be repatriated was 24th of March 1971 because it's on 25th that the crackdown by the Pakistan army begins. In effect they are somehow de facto to be accommodated within India and they have to do it right now this is again an international agreement which or whatever he arrives at in order to solve a problem.
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