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

Discover Bengal · Unfolded

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Curated routes through Bengal history

Choose a structured path and move through events, figures, places, periods, and sources in a deliberate reading order.

Est. 1947 · BengalA Bilingual Archive

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Bangladesh History Timeline

A macro learning hub linking ancient Bengal, medieval transitions, colonial restructuring, partition, liberation, state formation, military rule, democratic transitions, and contemporary civic politics.

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Ancient Bengal and Urban Civilization

A foundation hub linking Mahasthangarh, Shashanka’s Gauda, Pala-Sena state formation, Somapura Mahavihara, and the transition toward Turko-Afghan conquest.

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Pala-Sena Period and Knowledge Culture

A thematic hub on Pala-Sena intellectual culture, Somapura Mahavihara, dynastic authority, Sanskrit-Buddhist learning, and the late Sena political transition.

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Bengal Sultanate and Regional Power

Explore Bengal Sultanate power, frontier expansion, Sufi memory, regional courts, urban centers, and the cultural effects of Islamization.

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Mughal Bengal, Baro-Bhuyans, and Frontier Politics

Explore Mughal Bengal through imperial expansion, regional rulers, Bhati resistance, Dhaka-Jahangirnagar, riverine warfare, and local power struggles.

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Colonial Bengal: From Plassey to Permanent Settlement

Follow Bengal from late Nawabi rule through Company conquest, revenue experiments, famine pressures, Permanent Settlement, and the politics that reshaped rural society.

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Peasant, Religious, and Rural Resistance

Follow rural Bengal’s resistance through famine-era unrest, religious reform movements, anti-zamindari mobilization, indigo protest, and sharecropper politics.

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Bengal Partition, Swadeshi, and Nationalism

Read the 1905 Bengal partition through colonial administration, Swadeshi boycott, revolutionary nationalism, Muslim representation, and the founding of the Muslim League in Dhaka.

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Muslim Politics and Peasant Society in Eastern Bengal

Connect Muslim political organization, peasant mobilization, provincial elections, and agrarian questions in late-colonial eastern Bengal.

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Partition, Identity, and Eastern Bengal

Examine how partition, border-making, migration, language, communal violence, and representation remade identity in Eastern Bengal and early Pakistan.

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Language Movement and Cultural Nationalism

Study the Language Movement as a struggle over Bangla, representation, cultural dignity, student politics, and the roots of later Bengali nationalism.

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Pakistan Period: Autonomy to Mass Uprising

Understand East Pakistan’s journey from language rights and constitutional conflict to autonomy demands, mass uprising, disaster politics, and the road to 1971.

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Liberation War 1971

Follow the road to Bangladesh’s Liberation War through March 1971, Mujibnagar, battlefield fronts, mass violence, surrender, and memory.

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1972–1990: State Formation, Crisis, and Military Rule

Study Bangladesh’s early state formation, famine, constitutional rupture, military rule, opposition politics, and the 1990 democratic transition.

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Democracy and Civic Movements

Trace Bangladesh’s democratic and civic movements through student protest, opposition alliances, rights campaigns, election disputes, digital control, and street mobilization.

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1991–Present: Elections, Rights, and New Generation Politics

Track Bangladesh’s post-1991 politics through elections, rights struggles, state crises, security shocks, digital control, and new-generation movements.

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Bengal Culture, Literature, and Memory

Explore how Bengali literature, music, art, education, language, and public memory shaped identity across colonial, partition, and modern Bangladesh history.

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