Department of State
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume XI: South Asia Crisis, 1971
Official history · written 1971 · released 2005
Why this matters
The State Department's documentary record of the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani war, including the Nixon–Kissinger 'tilt' toward Pakistan despite reports of mass killings in East Pakistan. Every document is full-text searchable. It is the U.S. side of a war that remade South Asia.
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https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v11
Hosted by Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State
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South Asia in the Files
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Cite
Department of State. "Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume XI: South Asia Crisis, 1971." 1971. Released 2005. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v11 (accessed via The Quiet Archive, QA-0048).
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