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Alat Chakra
Editorial
A literary text that helps frame wartime mental strain and political reality.
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Ice-Candy-Man / Cracking India
Editorial
A major novel on partition trauma, gendered violence, and the Lahore context.
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Lifting the Long Silence on Baksal
Editorial
Editorial discussion from Dhaka Tribune on Baksal and how it appears in contemporary Bangladeshi public debate. Use with care for factual claims.
Primary Sources · Official Documents and Legal Texts
Omkar
Editorial
A literary text on language, nationhood, and cultural identity that helps illuminate the long background to 1971.
Primary Sources · Official Documents and Legal Texts
Partition of British India
Editorial
A short documentary-style video introducing archival records, official attitudes, and oral testimony connected to partition.
Primary Sources · Official Documents and Legal Texts
Train to Pakistan
Editorial
A classic partition novel that captures the fear, rupture, and violence of 1947 through village life at the border.
Academic Books · Colonial Economy and Land Revenue
A Rule of Property for Bengal: An Essay on the Idea of Permanent Settlement
Secondary
Major academic study of the intellectual, administrative, and property-rights logic behind the Permanent Settlement in Bengal.
Academic Books · Ancient and Early Bengal History
Bangaleer Itihas: Adiparba
Secondary
Niharranjan Ray's influential history of early Bengal, its society, culture, and the development of Bengali identity.
Academic Books · Nationalism and Political Thought
Bangaleer Jatiyotabad
Secondary
Sirajul Islam Chowdhury's analysis of Bengali nationalism and its political development.
Academic Books · Literary and Cultural History
Bangali O Bangla Sahitya
Secondary
Ahmad Sharif's two-volume study connecting the history of Bengali literature with Bengali society and culture.
Academic Books · State Formation and Political History
Bangladesh: Jatirashtrer Utthan
Secondary
Abul Maal Abdul Muhith's historical discussion of Bangladesh's state formation and emergence as a nation-state.
Academic Books · Pakistan Period Political History
Bangladesher Abbhudoy: Purba Pakistaner Itihas (1947-1971)
Secondary
Badruddin Umar's two-volume political history of East Pakistan, covering 1947-1958 and 1958-1971.
Academic Books · Historical Monographs
Bangladesher Itihas
Secondary
Muntassir Mamoon's multi-volume history of Bangladesh, covering political and social developments.
Academic Books · Pakistan Period and Liberation War
Bangladesher Itihas 1947-1971
Secondary
Mohammad Mahbubur Rahman's overview of Bangladesh from the Pakistan period through the Liberation War.
Academic Books · Liberation War History
Bangladesher Swadhinata Juddher Prekkhapot
Secondary
Syed Anwar Hossain's historical study of the background to Bangladesh's Liberation War.
Academic Books · Liberation War and Collaboration
Ekattorer Ghatak O Dalalera
Secondary
Azadur Rahman Chandan's study of forces opposed to the Liberation War and collaboration structures in 1971.
Academic Books · Long-Range Bengal History
Land of Two Rivers: A History of Bengal from the Mahabharata to Mujib
Secondary
Nitish Sengupta's long-range history of Bengal from ancient kingdoms through Muslim and colonial rule, Partition, and the emergence of Bangladesh.
Academic Books · Liberation War History
Muktisangram
Secondary
Abul Kashem Fazlul Haque's account of the background to the Liberation War, nationalism, and the struggle of 1971.
Academic Books · Language Movement and Political History
Purba Banglar Bhasha Andolan O Tatkalin Rajniti
Secondary
Badruddin Umar's three-volume study of the Language Movement, class politics, and political change in East Bengal from 1947 to 1952.
Research Articles and Papers · Scholarly Articles and Papers
Seir Mutaqherin / Siyar-ul-Mutakhkherin
— Ghulam Husain Khan Tabatabai
Primary
A late eighteenth-century history of Mughal India that is essential for understanding Bengal Nawabs and Plassey.