War history: How India fought against Pakistan’s military attack in the Rann of Kutch in 1965

Since Partition in August 1947, Pakistan had laid claim to the northern half of the Great Rann of Kutch, up to the line of 24 degrees north latitude, covering an area of more than 9,000 square kilometres, on the following grounds. The first argument was that the Rann of Kutch could either be considered a landlocked sea or a boundary lake, and therefore the international boundary should run through the middle. The second argument was that the northern half of the Rann had been administered by Sindh since its annexation by the British in 1843. Several pre- and post-Partition documents…