While India’s contribution to Bangladesh’s independence remains acknowledged, some key elements have been revised.

Bangladesh’s revised textbooks now state that Ziaur Rahman, not Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, declared independence in 1971. The ...

Colonel Ashok Tara was a part of the Indian Army operations to rescue Sheikh Mujibur Rehman’s daughter from Pakistani ...

and the Bangladesh Liberation War. The speakers, including Priyajit Debsarkar, Subhajyoti Ghosh, Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury, and Nitin Shingal, led thought-provoking discussions on the book's ...

In these changes lie an underlying theme — of playing down the Indian leadership’s contribution to the Bangladesh Liberation War in which the combined forces of Indian Army and the Bangladesh freedom ...

Sheikh Hasina's name has been completely removed from Bangladesh’s new school textbooks, with her traditional student message ...

Her ouster has prompted Bangladesh to do something that has followed every sudden change in national leadership: rewrite its history books to suit ... 1971 independence war against Pakistan ...

Her ouster has prompted Bangladesh to do something that has followed every sudden change in national leadership: rewrite its history books to suit new orthodoxies. “The tradition of altering ...

The 50 anniversary of Bangladesh’s liberation takes ... in the early part of March 1971 – in his new book “India and the Bangladesh Liberation War”. But the Pakistani massacre in Dhaka ...