The East Pakistan Renaissance Society was a political organisation formed to articulate and promote culturally and intellectually the idea for a separate...

Samiti, East Pakistan Renaissance Society, Pakistan Arts Council and Bulbul Lalitakala Academy. He was the first president of East Pakistan Press Club...

The 1969 East Pakistan uprising (Bengali: ঊনসত্তরের গণঅভ্যুত্থান, lit. '69’s Mass uprising') was a democratic political uprising in East Pakistan. It was...

coalition of political parties in East Bengal which contested and won Pakistan's first provincial general election to the East Bengal Legislative Assembly....

persecution by Pakistan government and uneven development of democratic movement in the two parts of Pakistan, the communists of East Pakistan felt the need...

East Pakistan was the eastern province of Pakistan between 1955 and 1971, restructured and renamed from the province of East Bengal and covering the territory...

Suhrawardy in 1946 but opposed by the colonial authorities. The East Pakistan Renaissance Society advocated the creation of a sovereign state in eastern British...

Muslim League members in East Bengal to established new political party under similar name too. In East Pakistan, East Pakistan Awami Muslim League was...

following the adoption of the Pakistan Resolution by the All India Muslim League. The same year the East Pakistan Renaissance Society was founded in Kolkata...

162 were in East Pakistan and 138 in West Pakistan. A further thirteen seats were reserved for women (seven of which were in East Pakistan and six of which...

The Eleven Points Programme was a charter of demands in East Pakistan that called for reforms and the resignation of President Ayub Khan. It was led by...

partitioned again. West Bengal went to India and East Bengal went to Pakistan becoming East Pakistan. The Partition of India took place along religious...

(Bengali: ছয় দফা আন্দোলন) was a significant political campaign in East Pakistan, led by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, advocating for greater autonomy for the...

against Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the then leader of the Awami League and East Pakistan, and 34 other people. The case was filed in early 1968 and implicated...

first general election in Pakistan, in December 1970, the Awami League (AL) won nearly every seat representing East Pakistan. That gave them an absolute...

eventually moved to Pakistan and divided his time between Karachi (Pakistan's federal capital) and Dhaka (capital of East Pakistan). In Dhaka, Suhrawardy...

The Lahore Resolution, also called the Pakistan Resolution, was a formal political statement adopted by the All-India Muslim League on the occasion of...

establishment of the republic of Bangladesh. The war pitted East Pakistan against West Pakistan and lasted over a duration of nine months. It witnessed large-scale...

nationwide mass popularity among the peasants and helped to build the East Pakistan Peasant Association. Owing to his political leaning to the left, often...

officially) termed West Pakistan and the Eastern zone (modern-day Bangladesh) was initially termed East Bengal and later, East Pakistan. The two zones were...

formed through the joining of the East Pakistan Student Union (Matia), East Pakistan Chhatra League, East Pakistan Student Union (Menon), and student...

influenced by the mentality of the East Pakistan Renaissance Society. After the partition, they realized that Pakistan was no longer governed with the idealism...

laureate. For almost two centuries, the Bengal renaissance saw the radical transformation of Indian society, and its ideas have been attributed to the rise...

period of escalating tensions between East Pakistan and the powerful political and military establishment of West Pakistan. In the speech, Bangabandhu informally...

East Bengal, it was decided by 106 votes to 35 that the province should not be partitioned and 107 votes to 34 that East Bengal should join Pakistan in...

carried out by the Pakistan Army in an effort to curb the Bengali nationalist movement in former East Pakistan in March 1971. Pakistan retrospectively justified...

By the 1960s, Mujib was transformed into the nationalist leader of East Pakistan, with his trademark Mujib coat and forceful oratory. He became popular...

League. He also took part in the Pakistan Movement after becoming the president of East Pakistan Renaissance Society. He also was the chairman of the...

and the Dominion of Pakistan. The Bengali Hindu-majority West Bengal became a state of India, and the Bengali Muslim-majority East Bengal (now Bangladesh)...

movement in then East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) by the Awami League and the general public against the military government of Pakistan in March of that...