Bengal UnfoldedA Bilingual Gazette
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Battle of Plassey, 1757
1757 · Plassey
Language Movement, 1952
1952 · Language
Liberation War, 1971
1971 · Liberation
Partition of Bengal and Swadeshi movement, 1905
1905 · Partition
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Operation Searchlight

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The Pakistan Army's military crackdown in East Pakistan beginning on 25 March 1971.

Est. 1947 · Bengal✺A Bilingual Archive

Explanation

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Operation Searchlight marks the violent rupture that transformed the political crisis into the Liberation War and remains central to memory, justice, and genocide debates.

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