Discover Bengal · Unfolded
❦Liberation War
Full list of figures, martyrs, coordinators, and collectives associated with 1971.
85 profiles
Political activist
Zohra Tajuddin was an important figure in the political and historical trajectory of Bengal and Bangladesh.
South Asian political and intellectual history in the Bengal region.
Their legacy remains relevant to understanding state, society, and memory in Bengal/Bangladesh history.
Novelist
Selina Hossain was an important figure in the political and historical trajectory of Bengal and Bangladesh.
South Asian political and intellectual history in the Bengal region.
Their legacy remains relevant to understanding state, society, and memory in Bengal/Bangladesh history.
Poet and playwright
Syed Shamsul Haq was an important figure in the political and historical trajectory of Bengal and Bangladesh.
South Asian political and intellectual history in the Bengal region.
Their legacy remains relevant to understanding state, society, and memory in Bengal/Bangladesh history.
Filmmaker and writer
Zahir Raihan significantly influenced Bengal and Bangladesh intellectual-cultural history.
South Asian intellectual and cultural transformations in the Bengal region.
Their work remains important for understanding modern Bengali identity, knowledge, and public life.
Islamist political leader
As Jamaat-e-Islami's East Pakistan leader, he opposed Bangladesh's independence movement and became associated in Bangladeshi historical memory with collaborationist politics during 1971.
The 1971 Liberation War, anti-independence political mobilization, and later Bangladesh debates over war crimes and collaboration.
His profile is sensitive and contested because it sits at the center of Bangladesh's public memory around collaboration, accountability, and the political legacy of 1971.
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