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Answer for the clue "It achieved independence in 1971 ", 10 letters:
bangladesh

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
nation formed 1971 from former East Pakistan, from Bengali for "Bengali country," from Bangla "Bengali" + desh "country."

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bangladesh is a country in South Asia. Bangladesh or Bangla Desh may also refer to: "Bangla Desh" (song) , a song by George Harrison Mr. Bangladesh , hip hop producer Bangladeš , a Roma settlement in Novi Sad, Serbia

Usage examples of bangladesh.

There was the plastics plant explosion in Uttar Pradesh and the sinking of the small freighter during the typhoon that struck Bangladesh only a few years past.

Like a creature from Alien reupholstered by Frank Purdue, the male organ is testimony to the fact that every now and again, as with the floods in Bangladesh or the teeth of the British, God just fails to get it right.

But Bangladesh in fact offers the prospect of agricultural self-sufficiency.

Hunger in Bangladesh, it seems to me, is the result of a very complex and vicious cycle.

Meanwhile, the aid-lending nations reduced their support, believing in error that Bangladesh, having had lots of rain, had lots of rice, and could thus feed itself.

In 1970, plagued with famine and disaster and desperate for cash, Bangladesh sold some of her jute to Cuba.

The shirt is definitely not the style for a Bangladesh morning, where the temperature is already ninety, ninety-five.

It is true that the plains of Bangladesh are rich with the alluvial minerals of great rivers and tributaries, silt that is flushed down from the Himalayas to the north.

And the reason is that over half of all farmers in Bangladesh are like Sari and her family: sharecroppers with not a pot to piss in, who must answer to wealthier landowners, the zamindars.

Jack, but I saw what I saw in Bangladesh, however romantic my temporary involvement.

Three generations of migrant workers who have no more of a share in this bounty than the Bangladesh farmer you seemed so concerned about.

And because the whole fertilizer mentality is about profit, it also entails a corollary of subsequent slave labor, migrants, homeless sharecroppers such as you witnessed in Bangladesh, and can find circulating the company farms of America.

Such caring for the land has avoided the useless syndrome of rotting bananas and rotting politics in Bangladesh, vanishing soil in America.

The shadow crosses into Bangladesh, thousands waiting on line and for each at best some pebbles of unleavened bread, control maintained by men with sticks.

Bull, in about 1887, this archless version of the Hoffmann kiln is widely used in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Myanmar, but is little known elsewhere.