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082			_a954.9204 _bMUJ/U
100	0		_aMujibur Rahman
245	1	4	_aThe unfinished memoirs
260			_aNew Delhi _bviking _c2012.
300			_a323 p.
520			_aWhen Sheikh Mujibur Rahmans diaries came to light in 2004, it was an indisputably historic event. His daughter, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, had the notebooks their pages by then brittle and discoloured carefully transcribed and later translated from Bengali into English. Written during Sheikh Mujibur Rahmans sojourns in jail as a state prisoner between 1967 and 1969, they begin with his recollections of his days as a student activist in the run-up to the movement for Pakistan in the early 1940s. They cover the Bengali language movement, the first stirrings of the movement for Bangladesh independence and self-rule, and powerfully convey the great uncertainties as well as the great hopes that dominated the time. The last notebook ends with the events accompanying the struggle for democratic rights in 1955. These are Sheikh Mujibs own words the language has only been changed for absolute clarity when required. On 21 February 1952 the police opened fire on a peaceful student procession, killing many. That brutal action unleashed the powerful movement that culminated in the birth of the new nation of Bangladesh in 1971.
650		0	_aPresidents
650		0	_aMujibur Rahman, Sheikh, 1920-1975
650		0	_aBangladesh
650		0	_apresidents
650		0	_aStatesmen
942			_cBK
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