Where did Sheikh Mujibur Rahman grow up and live?

📍Tungipara, Gopalganj, Bangladesh

1920 – 1975

“I was born Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the 17th of March 1920 in Tungipara, a village in the Gopalganj district of what was then Bengal. I became the founding father of Bangladesh — the leader whose speech on the 7th of March 1971 sent millions of Bengalis into a war of independence against Pakistan that cost three million lives before Indian intervention ended it in December 1971. I declared Bangladesh independent on the 26th of March 1971. I was held prisoner in Pakistan during the war and returned to Dhaka on the 10th of January 1972 to lead the new nation. I was assassinated with most of my family on the 15th of August 1975 in a military coup. The Tungipara village, the Bengali language, the paddy fields of the delta — these were the Bangladesh I fought to bring into being.”

👍 LovedThe 7th of March 1971 speech that launched a nation. Bengali independence and the creation of Bangladesh. The Tungipara village and the delta landscape of Bengal.

👎 DislikedThe political violence and authoritarianism of the final years. The assassination with my family in our Dhaka residence. The three million deaths of the liberation war.

Map showing where Sheikh Mujibur Rahman lived — Tungipara, Gopalganj, Bangladesh

🗺️ Approximate location today

📷 Location image · via Wikimedia Commons

Sources: Bass, G. The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide (2013), Knopf; Lifschultz, L. Bangladesh: The Unfinished Revolution (1979), Zed Press