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Archive Home > 2008 > July > 01 > Manekshaw was crucial to India’s victory in 1971 war

Manekshaw was crucial to India’s victory in 1971 war

By Haresh Pandya / The Bulletin
July 1, 2008

Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, India’s best-known soldier and the architect of the country’s victory in the 1971 war with Pakistan that gave birth to Bangladesh, died in Wellington, India, on Friday. He was 94.

The cause was pneumonia,....

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