Prehistory of Bangladesh

University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh GED 100 Bangladesh Studies Afsana Anjum Lecturer Room 602 The rowing is concerned with the political, cultural, social and economic history of Bengal that dates back to 320 B. C. with the line drawing towards the present. Daily lifestyle, society, religion, culture, wealth of Bengal in other words how this nation gradually evolved into at presents Bangladesh is the main structure of this subject.With that, land formation, agriculture system, industry, trade and commerce, religious activities, language and literature, sculpture, art architecture- in one word all sort of activities of the tribe of Bengal that evolved from thousand years ago is the theme of this subject. We are trying here to find the root and trail to our present standing point in universe of discourse civilization. Grading 100 Points social unit 1 Environmental Background weather and climate, land formation, river system, flora and fauna, mineral resources, demography, cultur e and religionUnit 2 Prehistory of Bangladesh Unit 3 other(a) historic Era (500 BC- 320 AD) Mshasthangarh and Wari-Bateshswar Unit 4 Late Historic Era-1 (320 550 AD) Gupta Era Unit 5 Late Historic Era-2 (525 750 AD) Sasanka, Gopachandra, Dharmaditya, Samachardeva, Khadga, Rata, Deva Unit 6Early Medieval Era (750 1230 AD) Pala, Chandra, Sena, Varman Unit 7Medieval Period (1204 1650) Sulatanate and Mughal Unit 8Coming of Europeans and easterly India CompanyUnit 9Liberation Movements Beginning of Communalism, Birth of East Pakistan (1947), Language Movement (1948 52), Juktafront Electiuons (1954) , Six Point movement (1966), Mass movement of 1969 and Election in 1970, Liberation War (1971) Unit10 Political history of Bangladesh from Independence Unit 11 Bangladesh achievements and challenges Unit 12 Review what weve learned. References Books Banglapedia, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh Bangladesher Etihas, 2006, Dr. Rahim, Dr.Chowdhury, Dr. Mahmud and Dr. Islam (Nouroj) level of Bengal- Vol 1 & 2 (Dhaka University) History of Bangladesh- Vol1, 2 & 3 (AsiaticSociety of Bangladesh) A History of Bangladesh- Williem Van Schendel History of Bengali speaking people- Nitish Sen Gupta Geography of Bangladesh, 1991, Haroun Er Rashid, UPL Bangladesh on the threshold of twenty first Century- Edited by Fakrul Alam & A. M. Chowdhury (Asiatic Society of Bangladesh) Bengali Literature, V C Ghosh, Oxford University PressEconomic Geography of Bangladesh- Dr. Harun ur Rashid Online Wikipedia www. wikipedia. com http//bpedia. org/ http//www. banglapedia. org/httpdocs/bangla/index. htm http//countrystudies. us/bangladesh/ Internet History Sourcebooks Project http//www. fordham. edu/halsall/ Project Gutenberg http//www. Gutenberg. org/wiki/Main_Page http//www. historyguide. org/ancient/lecture18b. html http//www. hyperhistory. com/online_n2/History_n2/a. html