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Bangladesh Liberation War: Documents
Primary
A core document collection for the Liberation War, useful for timelines, claim citations, and evidence-backed writing.
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16 December Instrument of Surrender
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Est. 1947 · Bengal✺A Bilingual Archive
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Official Documents and Legal Texts
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Instrument of Surrender, 16 December 1971
Secondary
Primary surrender document ending the Indo-Pak war in the eastern theatre.
Reference
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Encyclopedia and Archive Reference
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War of Liberation, The
Secondary
A Bangladesh-centered overview that explains how the denied 1970 mandate fed into the 1971 war.
Memoirs and Eyewitness Accounts
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Memoirs and Testimonies
Memoirs and Eyewitness Accounts · Memoirs and Testimonies
Surrender at Dacca: Birth of a Nation
Editorial
An important account of the final phase of the war and the surrender in Dhaka.
Memoirs and Eyewitness Accounts · Memoirs and Testimonies
Witness to Surrender
Editorial
A Pakistani military and administrative perspective on 1971, best used as a source with explicit bias notes.