Thank you for visiting the Bangladesh Archives. These archives are a collection of material on the 1971 war of Independence in Bangladesh. Material includes Newspaper and magazine articles. Documents from the US government and other sources, videos and audio matieral. Any suggestions and contributions of material is always welcome.

This page is very much a work in progress and new material is added regularly. The site currently has the following content.
Total items: 3024 — Text : 2762 — Image : 12 — Video : 250 — Audio : 0

The latest update was on: 2024-06-16 21:38:19 GMT

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Economist

  • Conflict in East Pakistan: Background and Prospects — Archer K. Blood
  • Unity at gunpoint
  • Far Eastern Economic Review

  • THE IRON FIST TAKES OVER — T. J. S. George
  • Editorial: Bangla Desh Lives
  • New York Times

  • Thant Authorizes Evacuation
  • Pakistan Warns India
  • West Said to Hold Mujib
  • Red Cross Aid Barred
  • 102 Britons Evacuated
  • A Resistance Fighter Tells His Story — James P. Sterba
  • Pakistan Offers Airliners To Evacuate Americans — Benjamin Welles
  • EAST PAKISTANIS HOLD ONTO A CITY — Associated Press
  • Reuters

  • VIDEO: INDIA: ANTI-PAKISTAN DEMONSTRATION IN DELHI (1971) — Reuters
  • Times (London)

  • The slaughter in East Pakistan
  • RAF flying British subjects out of Dacca
  • Shaikh Mujib's forces said to have gained footholds in several towns — Amalendu Das Gupta
  • East Pakistan: Bengali Maoists plead for arms from Indians — Peter hazelhurst
  • Road to Dacca airport a mass grave — Associated Press, Agence France Presse
  • U.S. National Archives

  • Background to the Thinning Out of the U.S. Presence in East Pakistan — William P. Rogers