About us · Muktijuddho

Why this site

Muktijuddho (muktijuddho.org) tells the story of how Bangladesh was born, in one place: from the Partition of 1947 to 1975, in seventeen chapters across four parts. It is written as a narrative you can read from start to finish. But nothing in it is invented: every fact carries its source, so readers can check it for themselves.

Where it stands

This is an experimental version. The chapters are written in Bangla and published one by one; the chapter list (in Bangla) shows which are ready. English versions will follow. The timeline, people and archive pages are still being built, and a page whose facts are still being checked says so at the top.

Sources policy

Every page follows the same rules:

No dialogue or thoughts are made up. What someone thought or said is written only when a source records it: their own writing, or an account by someone who was there.
Every fact has a footnote giving the source and the page number.
Quotations are given word for word, in the original spelling. Translations of English quotations into Bangla are ours, with the original English directly below.
When sources disagree, all of them are set side by side, with where they agree and where they do not.
Disputed numbers, such as deaths, refugees or votes, are never given as a single figure; we say who gave which number, with the source.
Where we reach a conclusion of our own, the text says plainly that it is our reading.
People and places are named as they were at the time, and later titles are not applied to earlier events.

Each footnote marks the kind of source with a letter: ক (ka), a contemporary document; খ (kha), a first-hand account written later; গ (ga), research by historians. The full policy and the list of every source used so far are on the sources page (in Bangla).

Corrections

History can be written wrong. When someone reports an error, we open the source again and check. If the error is confirmed, the text is corrected, and when a fact, date or number changes, the page says what changed and when. Small spelling or typing errors are fixed directly.

Report an error

If you find a mistake or something missing, write to [email protected]. It helps to include:

the link to the page, and which sentence or part is wrong;
what you believe is correct;
your source: the title of the book or document, the edition and the page.

Using our work

The text of this site is licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. You may use, translate or adapt it in class, in research or in other non-commercial work, on three conditions:

credit muktijuddho.org and link to the page;
do not use it commercially;
share anything you make from it under the same licence.