History Of Bangladesh

Bangladesh is a country in South Asia. The Himalayas have located some distance from the northern border of Bangladesh and the Bay of  Bengal in the south. West Bengal in India in the west. Bangladesh was established as an independent and sovereign country in 1971 through armed struggle against exploitation, discrimination, and oppression. 

The origin of the Bangla word is from bong metal. Bangala is a French word. Sultan Ilyas Shah named the region Bong as Bangla. In ancient times the name of the people living in Bengal was Bong. The origin of the Bangla name is mentioned in Ain-i-Akbari. Ethnically, the people of Bangladesh belong mainly to the original Australian ethnic group. The ancient nation of this country is Dravidian. The Bengali language belongs to the Indo-European language group.

The total area of ​​Bangladesh is 1,47,570 sq km. Or 56,977 square miles, which is 94th in the world. West Bengal of India is to the west of Bangladesh. To the north are West Bengal, Meghalaya, and Assam in India. To the east are India's Assam, Tripura, Mizoram, and Myanmar. To the south is the Bay of Bengal. The total border length of Bangladesh is 5,138 km. The land length of this country is 4,427 km. The length of the waters is 711 km. India and Myanmar have border connections with Bangladesh. There are 32 border districts of Bangladesh, of which 30 districts are connected to India.

Despite all the adversities, Bangladesh's economic progress and prosperity have been recognized worldwide in the last two decades. Bangladesh is one of the few countries in the world to have the status of a nation-state.

The settlement in Bangladesh has formed about 4000 years ago. It is believed that Dravidian and Tibetan Buddhists settled here at that time. The region was later divided into smaller kingdoms and ruled by local and foreign rulers. Europeans arrived in Bengal from the late fifteenth century. In 1757, British East India Compay won the battle of Palashi and seized control of Bengal.

In 1947, due to religious differences, Bengal was divided from the province, with the Hindu-majority West Bengal becoming part of India and the Muslim-majority East Bengal becoming part of Pakistan. As a result, East Bengal was renamed East Pakistan in 1951. Then the language movement of 1952 emerged as the first sign of enmity between the two parts of Pakistan. Over the next decade, protest against the central government's economic and cultural initiatives began to grow in East Pakistan.  Meanwhile, in the dark of the night of March 25, 1971, the Pakistani military launched a massacre of Bengalis in East Pakistan, sparking a people's war of independence. On March 26, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declared the independence of Bangladesh. The total number of casualties in the war of liberation is estimated at 3 million. General Niazi, the Chief of the Pakistan Army, surrendered to the Allied Chief of Army Staff, General Jagjit Singh Aurora, on 16 December 1971, along with about 93,000 troops. 

Bangladesh was first recognized by India on December 6, 1971, and Bhutan on December 6, 1971. Foreigners who contributed to Bangladesh's liberation war were Simon Dring (a British journalist working in Dhaka), Mother Mario Vernozzi (Italian), George Harrison (a US citizen who was the main organizer, and artist of the Concert for Bangladesh), and Ravi Sankar (Indian), who was one of the co-organizers of the Concert for Bangladesh), Ellen Ginsberg (US poet), Yevgeny Yev Tusoskar (Russian poet), Ardre Mayara (French writer), Jagjit Singh Arora (Indian citizen who was the Commander-in-Chief of the Indo-Bangladesh Joint Command), William S. Waterland (an Australian, Liberation War hero).