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Birmingham's Bangladeshi community grew significantly during the 1960s and 1970s as workers arrived to fill roles in the city's manufacturing sector. Centred in Sparkbrook, Alum Rock, Balsall Heath, Highgate, and Small Heath, it became one of the country's most important Bangladeshi communities, contributing to business, civic life, and religious organisation. Birmingham also played a decisive role in the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. Activists first organised through the East Pakistan Liberation Front, then helped build the Birmingham Bangladesh Action Committee, raising funds, producing the handwritten newsletter Bidrohi Bangla, lobbying politicians, and linking local activism to a national network of more than 100 Action Committees across Britain. Birmingham also holds a special place in the story of British curry. From the 1940s onwards, Bangladeshi pioneers established some of the city's earliest curry houses, including The Darjeeling, the Jinnah, and the Bombay Restaurant, and in doing so created not just a restaurant trade but a network of community infrastructure that housed, employed, and supported newly arrived migrants for decades.