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Bijoy 1971

sculpture in India

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ107739728 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bijoy 1971 (Bengali: বিজয় ১৯৭১) is a sculpture by Mahmudul Hasan Shohag in Bharat-Bangladesh Maitri Udyan on 2016. It is (12 feet) high and is located in Bharat-Bangladesh Maitri Udyan, India.

The sculptor tribute to Indian soldiers and Bangladeshi Freedom Fighters who sacrificed their lives during the Liberation War.

Editorial summary

“Bijoy 1971” enters the record as sculpture in India. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bijoy, sculpture and India can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1971, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bijoy, sculpture and India.
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Why this record matters

“Bijoy 1971” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bijoy, sculpture and India provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q107739728. The first chronological checks are 1971 and 2016.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bijoy 1971” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.