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Reference FCO 37/896
Department/Office Foreign Office
Title Declaration of independence of Bangla Desh 17 April 1971: creation of government in exile
Date 1971
Collection Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1965-1971
Region South Asia
Countries Pakistan, Bangladesh
Places Assam; Bangladesh; Beijing; Bengal; Bhutan; Burma (Myanmar); China; Chittagong; Delhi; Dhaka (Dacca); East Bengal; East Pakistan; France; India; Iran; Islamabad; Karachi; Kashmir; Kathmandu; Kolkata (Calcutta); Lahore; London; Nepal; New York; Pakistan; Paris; Washington, DC; West Bengal; West Pakistan
People Amin, Nurul; Ayub Khan, Muhammad; Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali; Douglas-Home, Sir Alec, 14th Earl of Home; Gandhi, Indira; Gandhi, Mohandas (Mahatma); Giri, Varahagiri Venkata; Khan, Yahya; Mao Zedong; Narayan, Jayaprakash; Nixon, Richard; Rahman, Sheikh Mujibur; Zahir Shah of Afghanistan; Zhou Enlai
Topics (Bangladesh) Awami League; agriculture; anti-communism; army; banking; battle; British Government; cemeteries, monuments and statues; Central Treaty Organisation (CENTO) (or Baghdad Pact); communications; communism; Constituent Assembly; consular representation; coup d'état; currency; democracy; diplomacy; economic aid; education; elections; evacuation; execution; exile; famine; food; foreign policy; Hinduism; independence; Indian Civil Service; Indian National Congress; Indo-Pakistani relations; international border; investment; Islam; judicial system; labour; language; military; mining; Muslim League; nationalism; nonalignment; oil; Pakistan Peoples Party; parliament; partition; peasantry; political parties; railway; Raj; Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh; refugees; repatriation; revolution; roads; socialism; South-East Asian Treaty Organisation (SEATO); trade; United Nations; war; weapons
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