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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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Discover Bengal · Unfolded

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Surrender at Dacca: Birth of a Nation

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J. F. R. Jacob

An important account of the final phase of the war and the surrender in Dhaka.

Est. 1947 · Bengal✺A Bilingual Archive

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memoirs-and-eyewitness-accounts · Memoirs and Testimonies

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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.

1971

16 December Instrument of Surrender

16 December Instrument of Surrender was a significant turning point in the political and social trajectory of Bengal/Bangladesh.