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Reference FCO 37/978
Department/Office Foreign Office
Title Political situation in West Bengal
Date 1971
Collection Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1965-1971
Region South Asia
Countries India
Places Assam; Bangladesh; Beijing; Bengal; Bihar; Chennai (Madras); China; Delhi; Dhaka (Dacca); East Bengal; East Pakistan; India; Islamabad; Kerala; Kolkata (Calcutta); Lahore; London; Mumbai (Bombay); Orissa; Pakistan; Rawalpindi; Uttar Pradesh (United Provinces); Vietnam; Washington, DC; West Bengal; West Pakistan
People Desai, Morarji; Gandhi, Indira; Gandhi, Mohandas (Mahatma); Khan, Yahya; Kumaramangalam, Paramasiva; Mao Zedong; Narayan, Jayaprakash; Rahman, Sheikh Mujibur
Topics (Bangladesh) Awami League; agriculture; army; assassination; banking; battle; British Government; British nationals; business; caste; communications; communism; Communist Party of India; consular representation; coup d'état; democracy; disease; education; elections; electricity; evacuation; famine; food; Hinduism; independence; Indian Civil Service; Indian National Congress; international border; invasion; investment; Islam; judicial system; labour; land reform; landlords; loans; Lok Sabha (Indian House of the People); migration; military; mining; Muslim League; Naga National Council; nationalism; oil; parliament; partition; peasantry; political parties; princely states; railway; Raj; Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh; refugees; revolt; revolution; riots and disturbances; roads; Royal Air Force; Scheduled Castes (Untouchables); socialism; steel; tourism; trade; trade unions; transport; United Nations; viceroy; war; weapons; women
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