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After revolution, Bangladesh textbooks rewrite history / 36XB9Y9
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Bangladeshi high schoolers are being educated for the future, but what they learn has been determined by the latest chapter in their country's battle over its past.
Last year a student-led revolution overthrew the government of iron-fisted premier Sheikh Hasina when public anger to her increasingly autocratic regime boiled over.
Her ouster has prompted Bangladesh to once again do something that has followed every sudden change in national leadership: rewrite its history books to suit new orthodoxies. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES