1971.12.20, Independence, Newspaper (Time)
TIME MAGAZINE, DECEMBER 20, 1971 BANGLADESH: OUT OF WAR, A NATION IS BORN “Jai Bangla; Jai Bangla:” From the banks of the great Ganges and the broad Brahmaputra, from the emerald fields and mustard-colored hills of the countryside, from the countless...
1971.12.17, Independence, Newspaper (New York Times)
THE NEW YORK TIMES, DECEMBER 17, 1971 JOY AND MARIGOLDS Dacca Pakistan, December 16-Shouting. “Joy Bangla!” and waving the Bangladesh flag, Indian troops in trucks and buses poured into the Pakistani military camp north of town today just after the...
1971.12.17, Country (India), District (Dhaka), Independence, Newspaper (Washington Post)
THE WASHINGTON POST, DECEMBER 17, 1971 WAR IN EAST ENDS-INDIANS ENTER DACCA TO MARIGOILDS AND CHEERS Dacca, December 16-Indian army troops entered Dacca today to the cheers of thousands of Bengalis shouting” Jai Bangla” (Victory for Bengal). The composite...
1971.12.06, Newspaper (Newsweek), Wars
NEWSWEEK, DECEMBER 6. 1971 THE WAR IN BENGAL: INDIA ATTACKS When nations go to war, they almost invariably claim to be acting out of the purest motives. Last week, as India’s leaders met in the high-domed central hull of the New Delhi Parliament, there was much...
1971.11.08, Newspaper (Newsweek), Wars
NEWSWEEK, NOVEMBERS, 1971 WAR WAITING TO HAPPEN In their 24 years as independent nations, India and Pakistan have shown a boundless capacity for squabbling with each other. They have argued endlessly over Kashmir and bit of Westland called the Rann of Katch, and six...
1971.11.02, Newspaper (Baltimore Sun), Wars
THE BALTIMORE SUN, NOVEMBER 2, 1971 BENGAL FIGHTING REPORTED INDIAN TROOPS TRY TO SILENCE PAKISTANI GUNS By Prim Sabharwal New Delhi Bureau of The Sun New Delhi-In the first major incident involving regular troops. Indian forces have struck at Pakistani artillery that...
1971.11.01, Newspaper (Newsweek), Wars
NEWS WEEK, NOVEMBER 1.1971 ‘THE SMELL OF WAR’ Across the desolate Punjabi plains of West Pakistan, columns of rumbling tanks kicked up billowing dust clouds. And a thousand miles away, along the marshy India East Pakistan border, the night lime silence was...
1971.10.27, Country (Pakistan), Newspaper (New York Times), Wars
THE NEW YORK TIMES, OCTOBER 27,1971 PAKISTAN LISTS TOLL OI 78 MORE IN FIGHTING IN EASTERN REGION By Malcolm W. Browne Special To The New York Times Karachi, Pakistan, October 26 -Pakistan reported today that her army continued mopping up. “Indian troops and...
1971.10.26, Newspaper (Baltimore Sun), Wars
THE BALTIMORE SUN, OCTOBER 26, 1971 CHANCE OF WAR The chance of war in South Asia arises from a great complexity of factors, two of which are particularly dangerous right now. One is an increased belligerence on the pan of some in India who apparently think war is...
1971.10.20, Country (India), Country (Pakistan), Newspaper (New York Times), Wars
NEW YORK TIMES, OCTOBER 20, 1971 INDIA AND PAKISTAN ARMIES CONFRONT EACH OTHER ALONG BORDERS By Sydney H. Schanberg Special To The New York Times New Delhi, October 19- The armies of India and Pakistan now confronting each other among their borders. Most Western...
