The Bangladesh Reader

Informationen zum Autor Meghna Guhathakurta is Executive Director of Research Initiatives Bangladesh, a nonprofit organization that supports and promotes research on poverty alleviation in Bangladesh.Willem van Schendel is Professor of Modern Asian History at the University of Amsterdam and Head of the South Asia Department at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. Klappentext Meghna Guhathakurta is Executive Director of Research Initiatives Bangladesh, a nonprofit organization that supports and promotes research on poverty alleviation in Bangladesh.Willem van Schendel is Professor of Modern Asian History at the University of Amsterdam and Head of the South Asia Department at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. Zusammenfassung Packed with images! first-person accounts! short stories! historical documents! speeches! treaties! essays! poems! and songs! this Reader is an unprecedented introduction to the historical! cultural! and political permutations that have created contemporary Bangladesh. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations xi Ackowledgments xv Introduction 1 I. Voices from Bangladesh 7 II. Early Histories 31 III. Colonial Encounters 71 IV. Partition and Pakistan 157 V. War and Independence 221 VI. Dilemmas of Nationhood 291 VII. Contemporary Culture 367 VIII. The Development Gaze 411 IX. Bangladesh beyond Borders 469 Suggestions for Further Reading 521 Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources 527 Index 541

Zusammenfassung
Packed with images, first-person accounts, short stories, historical documents, speeches, treaties, essays, poems, and songs, this Reader is an unprecedented introduction to the historical, cultural, and political permutations that have created contemporary Bangladesh.

Inhalt
List of Illustrations xi
Ackowledgments xv
Introduction 1
I. Voices from Bangladesh 7
II. Early Histories 31
III. Colonial Encounters 71
IV. Partition and Pakistan 157
V. War and Independence 221
VI. Dilemmas of Nationhood 291
VII. Contemporary Culture 367
VIII. The Development Gaze 411
IX. Bangladesh beyond Borders 469
Suggestions for Further Reading 521
Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources 527
Index 541

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