A history of Bangladesh /
"This is a book about the amazing twists and turns that have produced contemporary Bangladeshi society. It is intended for general readers and for students who are beginning to study the subject. Those who are familiar with the story will find my account highly selective. My aim has been to pre...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
c2020.
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| Ausgabe: | Second edition. |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Part I: The Long View
- A land of water and silt
- Jungle, fields, cities and states
- A region of multiple frontiers
- The delta as a cross roads
- Part II: Colonial Encounters
- From the Mughal empire to the British Empire
- British legacies
- A closing agrarian frontier
- Colonial conflicts
- Towards Partition
- Partition
- Population exchange
- Part III: Becoming East Pakistan
- The Pakistan experiment
- Pakistan falls apart
- East Pakistani livelihoods
- The roots of aid dependence
- A new elite and cultural renewal
- Part IV: War and the Birth of Bangladesh
- Armed conflict
- A state is born
- Imagining a new nation
- Part V: Independent Bangladesh
- Shaping a political system
- The triumph of identity politics
- Transnational linkages
- Boom or bust?
- Gender movements
- A national culture?