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Reference FCO 37/1528
Department/Office Foreign Office
Title Political situation in West Bengal, India: despatch by Michael Walker, British High Commissioner at New Delhi, entitled, 'West Bengal and North-East India', dated 14 March 1974 and incorporating two farewell despatches by Stephen Miles, Deputy High Commissioner in Calcutta
Date 1974
Collection Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1972-1980
Region South Asia
Countries United Kingdom, India
Places Andhra Pradesh; Assam; Bangladesh; Bengal; Bihar; Burma (Myanmar); Chennai (Madras); China; Colombo; Delhi; Dhaka (Dacca); East Bengal; East Pakistan; Gujarat; India; Islamabad; Kashmir; Kathmandu; Kolkata (Calcutta); London; Maharashtra; Mumbai (Bombay); Nagaland; New York; North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA); Orissa; Pakistan; Paris; Punjab; Uttar Pradesh (United Provinces); West Bengal; Yangon (Rangoon)
People Gandhi, Indira; Gandhi, Mohandas (Mahatma); Nehru, Jawaharlal ('Panditji')
Topics agriculture; anti-communism; army; banking; British Government; British nationals; business; capitalism; caste; commodities; communism; Communist Party of India; democracy; education; elections; electricity; exile; famine; food; Green Revolution; Hinduism; independence; Indian Civil Service; Indian National Congress; industrial development; international border; investment; Islam; Judaism; judicial system; labour; language; mining; nationalism; oil; parliament; peasantry; railway; Rajya Sabha (Indian Council of States); Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh; revolution; riots and disturbances; roads; Scheduled Castes (Untouchables); secessionism; socialism; state of emergency; steel; Swatantra Party; tourism; trade; transport; United Nations; uprising; war; women
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