| Publication |
2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
The news that the battle of Imphal-Kohima during the Second World
World War (WWII) was voted in Britain as Britain's most hard fought
and significant battle in its entire history, ought to excite more than
mere wonderment in the two states that remote as they are, they had been the pivot around which an important chapter of the history of the
world actually turned so significantly. There undoubtedly would be a
mixed sense of awe, pride and victimhood in both the places at the
confirmation that they had been in the eye of a violent campaign of a
magnitude they had never ever imagined before. There would also be
an equally understandable sense of sudden importance at this revelation.
These senses of elation, expectations and awe however can only at best
be ephemeral, acquiring a place in the iconic memory of the place for a
brief period before fading and ultimately disappearing into the nebulous
pit of oblivion public memory is generally destined for. That is, if no
tangible official effort is made to capitalise on this sudden turn of
world consciousness.
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