Chandrashekhar Dasgupta

Publication

The Decision to Intervene: First Steps in India’s Grand Strategy in the 1971 War

One of the most popular anecdotes of the 1971 war is Field Marshal Manekshaw’s tale of how he restrained an impatient Indira Gandhi from ordering an unprepared Indian army to...

Chandrashekhar Dasgupta |
July 2016 |
Strategic Analysis

Nehru, Patel and China

On November 7, 1950, Vallabhbhai Patel wrote his celebrated letter to Jawaharlal Nehru on India’s China policy. ‘The Chinese Government has tried to delude us by professions of peaceful intention’,...

Chandrashekhar Dasgupta |
September 2014 |
Strategic Analysis