The Role of India in the Separation of Eastern Pakistan 1971 and the Attitude of The Soviet union

Abstract

After independence in 1947, India played an important role in the political arena, in general, and the Asian arena, in particular. This demonstrated through a variety of effective and influential stances and interventions. From here comes this research to address the significant role of India in the birth of one of the Asian countries, that is Bangladesh as a result of events hit East Pakistan in 1971.This study is of several parts including the nature of political, social, economic affairs in the East Pakistan from 1947 – 1971, which led to an explosion in the last year. The other part covers the Indian role in the events of East Pakistan through disclosing the stance of the Indian leadership in these events, then their direct military intervention to support Bangladesh in addition to support them in the United Nations and Security Council.The last part sheds light on the Soviet Union's stance from the East Pakistan's events and Indian intervention there. That stance had an effective role in supporting both of India and Bengal, and then the advent of the Republic of Bangladesh.