History distorted?

Recently, while preparing a lecture synopsis for the MS students of our university on the subject, Journalism, I went through an Indian book titled "Mass Communication", the author of which is no less important a person than R Chatterjee, a former member of the Central Information Service, Govt. of India, former Director of News Service, All India Radio, former Colombo Plan Information Officer, etc. In this book, the author viewed our movement for freedom differently as he writes in page 174 (Chapter XV National Integration):-

"However, the year 1971 saw the reestablishment of unity when in the general elections the Congress Party was returned with an overwhelming majority. While India's efforts to avoid a war with Pakistan over the issue of refugees failed, the 14-day war resulted in the freedom of Bangla Desh."