Bangladesh Is Rewriting Its History Of 1971 Liberation War In School Textbooks | New Course | N18G

A Daily Star report states that textbooks in Bangladesh will now be changed to state that Ziaur Rahman — not ‘Bangabandhu’ Sheikh Mujibur Rahman — declared the country’s independence in 1971. Moreover, the textbooks have also removed Mujib’s title of ‘Father of the Nation’.Prof AKM Reazul Hassan, chairman of the National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB), was quoted as telling the daily that 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”.Show more