The Bangladesh Traveller » Zia Rahman http://bangladeshtraveller.com Official Website of Bangladesh: The Bradt Travel Guide Sat, 05 May 2012 03:58:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 History: British Rule to East Pakistan (1757-1970) http://bangladeshtraveller.com/2009/09/01/history-british-rule-to-east-pakistan-1757-1970/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=history-british-rule-to-east-pakistan-1757-1970 http://bangladeshtraveller.com/2009/09/01/history-british-rule-to-east-pakistan-1757-1970/#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:57:51 +0000 Mikey Leung http://bangladeshtraveller.com/?p=225 By the 17th century, the British East India Company had gained the upper hand in this conflict and had established a growing trading port in Calcutta. Despite the disintegration of the Mughal Empire through the early part of the 18th century, strong leadership in Bengal kept it economically powerful, further strengthened by its European trading connections.]]>

The British in Bengal

Europeans began landing on south Asia’s shores during the 16th century in an attempt to circumvent trading middlemen throughout central Asia. Other than establishing the region’s first foreign trading ports, the Portuguese managed to earn themselves reputations as fierce marauders but they never became anything more substantial than that. They were soon followed by Dutch, English and French traders, who fought wars with one another all over the subcontinent for positions of trading power. By the 17th century, the British East India Company had gained the upper hand in this conflict and had established a growing trading port in Calcutta. Despite the disintegration of the Mughal Empire through the early part of the 18th century, strong leadership in Bengal kept it economically powerful, further strengthened by its European trading connections.

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]]> http://bangladeshtraveller.com/2009/09/01/history-british-rule-to-east-pakistan-1757-1970/feed/ 0 History: Liberation War to Caretaker Government (1971-present) http://bangladeshtraveller.com/2009/09/01/history-liberation-war-to-caretaker-government-1971-present/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=history-liberation-war-to-caretaker-government-1971-present http://bangladeshtraveller.com/2009/09/01/history-liberation-war-to-caretaker-government-1971-present/#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:56:43 +0000 Mikey Leung http://bangladeshtraveller.com/?p=239 After the Liberation War broke out, a new government was formed in exile on the Indian border, and the freedom fighters, taking the title Mukti Bahini, began a guerrilla war. Although the fighters were never a cohesive force that could actually stop the Pakistani rampage, they instead served to harass them at every turn.]]>

Liberation War

After the initial conflict broke out, a new government was formed in exile on the Indian border, and the freedom fighters, taking the title Mukti Bahini, began a guerrilla war. Although the fighters were never a cohesive force that could actually stop the Pakistani rampage, they instead served to harass them at every turn. The fighters were also aided by small pockets of anonymous resistance that remained hidden among the general populace and achieved small victories, including cutting Dhaka’s power in a daring raid.

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