The month of March, 1971. The Ramna Race Course maidan was thronging with people coming from across the country. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the paramount leader of 75 million people, in the immemorially large mass gathering called for independence. In a historic speech, he roared: “The struggle this time is a struggle for our emancipation, the struggle this time is a struggle for independence.” The speech is one of the shining examples of what the Cambridge University historian Jacob F. Field called,
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