Over 16,000 pages of State Department Central Files on India and Pakistan from 1963 through 1966. Documents the political relations between India and Pakistan during a crucial period in the Cold War and the shifting alliances and alignments in South Asia. The Central Files contains a wide range of materials from U.S. diplomats in foreign countries: special reports on political and military affairs’ studies and statistics on socioeconomic matters’ interviews and minutes of meetings with foreign government officials’ full texts of important letters, instructions, and cables sent and received by U.S. diplomatic personnel’ voluminous reports and translations from foreign journals and newspapers’ and countless translations of high-level foreign government documents.