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1757 · Plassey
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1952 · Language
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1971 · Liberation
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1905 · Partition
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Discover Bengal · Unfolded

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Jatiya Party and the Ershad-Era Political Argument

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Jatiya Party / pro-Ershad account

Critical comparison source for the Ershad government’s self-justification, reform claims, and alternative interpretation of the movement.

Est. 1947 · Bengal✺A Bilingual Archive

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cultural-and-literary-resources · Literature and Cultural Texts

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1990

Mass Uprising

The 1990 Mass Uprising was the culmination of years of resistance to military-backed authoritarian rule in Bangladesh. Student activism, the martyrdom of Nur Hossain in 1987, opposition-alliance coordination, and professional-civic mobilization converged in a final wave of pressure that forced Hussain Muhammad Ershad to resign and opened the path to the Shahabuddin-led transition and the 1991 restoration of parliamentary democracy.