“The History of Bangladesh” Taken From The ‘Foreword’ Of The Book: The rapid expansion of electronic media has brought the world in men’s fist. The most negative approach of this media is the circulation of false or imaginary information. The circulation of Western media is irresistably wide spread. The different media including B.B.C. and C.N.N. are circulated even to the remote country side. In causing harm to a person,religion or a race these media act as antibiotic. Alexan invations of India and his Chief Commander Selecus’s envoy Megasthenes’ visit to the court of Emperor Chandra Gupta are very notable events of the ancient time. He wrote an account of India named Indika in four volumes during the last decade of the 3rd century B.C. Strabo in the last part of the 1st century B.C. Pliny in 79 A.D. and Arrian in 150 A.D. wrote books on India. Pliny wrote in Latin and the rest in Greek language. The Arabian,Turk,English,Greek,French and Bengali historians while writing the history of their countries or colonies tended to serve the interest of their nation and religion. So,a subtantial part of information they dealt with is fabricated and baseless. Again,many titles on history provides the scope for ensuring everlasting conflits between different nationalities or communities. History should not be cultivated to attain a commercial goal. It should be committed to need and conscience. So,the books on history are still encircled within the limits of a covered area. It is necessary to provide diversity in dealing with history so that the readers and investigators can save their time and get relishment in reading history books. I am not a student of history,but I like to know the facts of history and to collect the historical information. From this points of view,I absorved myself in deep study and cultivation of history for last two decades. I got the opportunity of going through many titles on history authored by the Bengali historians. Manny of them may appear to be
