Bangladesh rewrites textbooks on 1971 liberation war: Report
Financial Express Delhi|January 02, 2025
TEXTBOOKS IN BANGLADESH will now state that Ziaur Rahman—not 'Bangabandhu' Sheikh Mujibur Rahman—declared the country's independence in 1971, The Daily Star reported on Wednesday.
ARJUN SENGUPTA

TEXTBOOKS IN BANGLADESH will now state that Ziaur Rahman—not 'Bangabandhu' Sheikh Mujibur Rahman—declared the country's independence in 1971, The Daily Star reported on Wednesday. The new textbooks have also removed Mujib's title of 'Father of the Nation'.

“The new textbooks for the 2025 academic year will state that ‘on March 26, 1971, Ziaur Rahman declared the independence of Bangladesh, and on March 27, he made another declaration of independence on behalf of Bangabandhu’,” Prof A K M Reazul Hassan, chairman of the National Curriculum and Textbook Board, told The Daily Star.

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