Gendered Nationalism: Bangladeshi Narratives of the War of Liberation

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Jana Fedtke

Useful for gender, nationalism, and how liberation narratives are framed in later memory cultures.

Est. 1947 · Bengal✺A Bilingual Archive

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1971

Liberation War

The Liberation War of 1971 grew out of the denied majority verdict of the 1970 election, the March non-cooperation movement, and the Pakistan Army's 25 March crackdown. What followed was not a single battlefield episode but a combined political, military, and humanitarian rupture: a provisional government, sector-based armed resistance, mass displacement into India, and finally the defeat of Pakistani forces in December and the birth of Bangladesh.

2013

Shahbag Movement

In early 2013, mass gatherings at Shahbag in Dhaka called for stronger accountability for war crimes linked to 1971. Students, bloggers, cultural activists, and citizens transformed the square into a sustained protest space, turning memory politics and justice debates into a central national question.

Gendered Nationalism: Bangladeshi Narratives of the War of Liberation

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Liberation War

Shahbag Movement