Foreign Relations of the U.s: 1969-1976, South Asia Crisis, 1971 (Foreign Relations of the United States)

State Department Publication 11199.Edited by Louis J. Smith. General Editor: Edward C. Keefer. Part of a subseries that documents the most important issues in the foreign policy of the administration of Richard M. Nixon. This volume documents the response of the United States to the crisis that developed in South Asia in 1971. The scope of this volume is limited to the political crisis that began in Pakistan in March 1971 with the government’s efforts to suppress Bengali demands for virtual autonomy in East Pakistan and concluded with the establishment of the state of Bangladesh at the end of the year.