Wikipedia:WikiProject Bangladesh/History Workgroup

Lalbagh Fort, Dhaka from Antiquities of Dacca, Charles D'Oyly, London, 1824

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History Workgroup

The History Workgroup is a working group of members of the Bangladesh WikiProject dedicated to ensuring quality and coverage of Bangladesh history related articles.

Scope

By definition the land of Bangladesh prior to 1971 was known as East Pakistan and East Bengal; was a part of Bengal Presidency, Bengal, and Suba Bangal; and, was a collection of small lands like Vanga, Gauda and Pundra. This project will encompass all of these identities, some of which overlap with History of India, History of Pakistan and History of the Commonwealth.

Goals

The aim of this project is to standardize, improve and monitor articles related to History of Bangladesh, as well as to create missing articles, especially after the Independence of Bangladesh in 1971. The scope of the project also applies to History of Bengal articles.

If a historical person's/ dynasty's/ state's name is not unique, please, create a disambiguation page for the name.

You can begin by contributing to the following periods of history of Bangladesh (including separate subsections or even separate articles): (1) Pre-historic Bangladesh; (2) Hindu-Buddhist period; (3) Muslim period; (4) Colonial period; (5) Pakistani period; (6) Independent Bangladesh.

The War of Liberation

The biggest event in Bangladesh history, the Liberation War, needs particular attention. It needs a complete timeline, plenty images (preferably with use permission from copyright holders), much better work on 1971 Bangladesh atrocities (including Operation Searchlight) and Mukti Bahini (including separate entries for the sectors and forces outside the Niomita Bahini), a complete list of Recipients of Bangladeshi military awards in 1971 (preferably separate biographies for all the recipients) and more. The categorization system needs much work as well.

Writing guidelines

Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject History

In historical articles, the past tense is strongly advised. While history can be written in the present tense, the general audience of Wikipedia will usually expect the past tense on historical subjects and events that occurred in the past. The present tense in English is only correctly used to describe past events in a work of fiction. This is referred to as the "historical past tense". For historical biographies make use of the {{Infobox Biography}} template.

See also: Template:Infobox Biography

Related Portals, Projects and Categories

• Portals: Portal:Bangladesh • Portal:History
• Projects: WikiProject Indian history • WikiProject History of Pakistan • WikiProject West Bengal
• Categories: Category:History of Bangladesh • Category:Bangladeshi people • Category:Years in Bangladesh • Category:Bengal • Category:Bangladesh • Category:History of South Asia • Category:History of India • Category:History of Pakistan

Sister Projects

History of Bangladesh on Wikiquote History of Bangladesh on Commons History of Bangladesh on Wikisource History of Bangladesh on Wikibooks

Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.

1. Abdullah Harun Jewel
2. Aditya Kabir (Particularly interested in the History of Dhaka)
3. Arthonitibid (Particularly interested in the Social, Political and Economic History of Bangladesh)
4. AzfarShams
5. Usingha
6. BrightConstellations234
7. Ragib
8. Arman Aziz
9. Niaz bd
10. Dwaipayan
11. Tarif
12. Tanveer
13. Bakaman
14. Maksud3
15. Hossain Akhtar Chowdhury
16. Farsad (Mostly interested in Liberation War related history)
17. Anwarul Islam
18. Greenberet08 (Particularly interested in 1971 war, Armed Forces of Bangladesh, Military History and Literature)
19. Altaf Rahman (Mostly interested in the period from ancient times until the British rule)
20. Fowler&fowler
21. ArmanJ
22. germsteel
23. InterDimensional14 (talk · contribs) 05:12:32, 4 January 2024 (UTC) 

Source you can use

Some resources the participants may find useful in creating or expanding articles within the scope of the project:

• Wikimedia commons:History of Bangladesh
• Banglapedia, the national encyclopedia of Bangladesh
• Muktijuddho Jadughar or the Liberation War Museum
• Sarkar, Jadunath (2003). The History of Bengal (Volume II): Muslim Period. Delhi: B.R. Publishing. ISBN 81-7646-239-X.
• Majumdar, R.C. (2003). The History of Bengal (Volume I): Hindu Period. Delhi: B.R. Publishing. ISBN 81-7646-238-1.
• Ray, Niharranjan (1994). History of the Bengali people : ancient period. Kolkata: Orient Longman. ISBN 0863113788.

The appropriate barnstar

To award a participant with a barnstar you may make use of - {{subst:The Epic Barnstar|message ~~~~}}. It would look something like:

		The Epic Barnstar
		I award this barnstar for your outstanding contribution to Bangladesh history aticle. Bangladeshi Historian 19:27, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Assessment statistics

History Workgroup assessment statistics worklist • log • category

All WikiProject Bangladesh articles that are currently tagged as part of this workgroup's coverage with the with "history=" parameted set to "yes" - are within the scope of this workgroup level assessment. This assessment statistics use the quality and importance rating assigned by the mother project: WikiProject Bangladesh. These statistics are automatically updated by a bot every 3 days. The article ratings are also used within the workgroup to aid in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are based on quality scale and importance scale as defined by Assessment Department of WikiProject Bangladesh.

If you find a Bangladesh history related article is missing in this assessment, probably the reason is, the "history=yes" parameter is not currently set within the Project banner of WikiProject Bangladesh. Please set the appropriate parameter. The table will be updated with correct statistics within 3/4 days.

If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please post your request here.

You will find a list of frquently aked questions about the assessment precess here.

To-do

Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : Ancient: Gauda Kingdom, Radha Kingdom, Khadga Kingdom, Kaibartta Rebellion; Middle age: Cleanup : Parbattya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti Copyedit : 1971 Bangladesh atrocities Expand : Baro-Bhuyan, Mukti Bahini Stubs : Bir Bikrom, Bir Protik, Bir Uttom, Shashanka Other : You can contribute greatly by uploading relevant free or public domain and especially self created images to Wikimedia commons (including the D'Oyly goldmine).