Muhammad Idrish

BY: Muhammad Idrish

ISBN : 9789849742180

There are now around ten million Bengali people living outside Bangladesh and the West Bengal state of India. Many of them can not read the Bangla language. That there is a shortage of written materials in English about the history of the Bangladesh liberation war of 1971 became apparent during the Bangladesh50 celebrations in 2021. Through my conversations with people I realised that knowledge amongst the Bengali diaspora about the events of 1971 was limited and at variance with what I witnessed first hand during the turbulent days leading to and during the freedom fight itself. I am not a historian, I have never written a book, however I was an eyewitness to an historical event. I decided to write something for the benefit of the generation who were born after 1971 and for those who were born abroad. I chose to do it in English because most of them live in countries where English is the state language.