HISTORY

The history of Bangladesh has been one of extreme. It has thrived in the glow of cultural splendor and suffered under the ravage of wars. Some medieval European geographers located a paradise at the mouth of the Ganges River that was the deltaic land of Bengal. Bengal is the ancient name of present day Bangladesh. Bengal was the wealthiest part of the
Indian Subcontinent until the 16th century.

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These three stand in the campus of Dhaka University, where the flag of an independent Bangladesh was first unfurled. They are the three among many who fought
in the Bangladesh war of liberation in 1971. the sculpture is realtively new, but the firmness in the attitude
and the look of the three is not. Its root lie deep
in the hitory and heart of Bangladesh




Dhaka city (the Capital of Bangladesh) on the
bank of river Buriganga 1840

It is assumed that the Austro-Asiatic race first inhabited this region in prehistoric age. Afterwards came the Dravidians, Aryans and Mongoloids. Archeological excavations show signs of powerful dynasties that ruled the land till the Muslims from the Central Asian region conquered it in the 13th century AD and established their rule. A succession of Muslim monarchies
ruled over the area till 1757, when the British conquest took place. In 1947 the British left the Indian Subcontinent and Bengal came to be known as East Bengal and then in 1956 as East Pakistan. In 1971 through an armed struggle Bangladesh emerged as an independent state.