There are moments when a country must look beyond its immediate politics and ask a more uncomfortable question: why did we become a country in the first place? Bangladesh may be approaching such a moment. The politics of the last couple of years has pushed Bangladesh into an intense reassessment of the Sheikh Hasina era. That reassessment is understandable, but it should not become an erasure of history. Sheikh Hasina and the Awami League remain inseparable from one important