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title: 'Chitra Katha photo poster No. 39: Women''s training (Bengali, Dacca)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chitra-katha-photo-poster-39-bengali-dacca-1958/
description: A Bengali-language photo page for USIS Dacca on rural-development training for women in Pakistan. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
---

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[![Chitra Katha photo poster No. 39: Women's training, 1958 US poster: A Bengali-language photo page for USIS Dacca](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/chitra-katha-photo-poster-39-bengali-dacca-1958.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/chitra-katha-photo-poster-39-bengali-dacca-1958.jpg)

# Chitra Katha photo poster No. 39: Women's training (Bengali, Dacca)

A Bengali-language photo page for USIS Dacca on rural-development training for women in Pakistan. Photographs show women trainees cooking, preserving fruit, weighing food, cycling and arranging flowers, and the headline speaks of putting women's power to use in nation building. The tell is glittering-generalities, as the headline attaches a broad national goal to home-economics training, while plain-folks photographs of ordinary trainees carry the message.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

Original (Bengali) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
চিত্রকথা

জাতী গঠনে নারী শক্তির সদ্বব্যহারের আয়োজন

[Bengali photo captions and body text not transcribed in full]

Issue No. 39 Published weekly for U. S. I. S. Dacca by Jatiya Mudran
Editor's Note:- Please Post in Public Place, such as School Room, Board Bulletin Etc.
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Chitra Katha (Pictorial Story)

Arrangements for making good use of women's power in building the nation

[Bengali photo captions and body text not transcribed in full: they describe women workers of East and West Pakistan village-development training centres learning home economics, food preparation and preservation, and household skills under the supervision of experts of the International Cooperation Administration.]

Issue No. 39 Published weekly for U. S. I. S. Dacca by Jatiya Mudran
Editor's Note:- Please Post in Public Place, such as School Room, Board Bulletin Etc.
```

Only the masthead, headline and printed English imprint lines are transcribed; the small Bengali captions and body column are not transcribed in full. The imprint text is partly broken in the print.

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