Early History

Early History: A story must always be told from a little earlier than when it starts, and so bangladesh's history can be told from the British period. The British have rule this region for approximately two hundred years. Thousands and thousands of people have been killed, imprisoned and exiled in their attempts to be free. In 1940 the 'Lahore Resolution' declared that the two areas that had the most Muslims would become two countries and the remaining area would become a separate country. But on the 14th of August, 1947 the two areas that had the most Muslim become one country, Pakistan, instead of two, and on the 15th of August the remaining area became a different country India. And so a very strange country was born; the two parts of the country were in two different places. What is now Pakistan was known as West Pakistan. There is a two thousand kilometer distance and an entire country-India-between then!