Guhathakurta / van Schendel The Bangladesh Reader

History, Culture, Politics
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9567-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 568 Seiten

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Packed with images, first-person accounts, short stories, historical documents, speeches, treaties, essays, poems, and songs, this Reader is an unprecedented introduction to the historical, cultural, and political permutations that have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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guhathakurta, Meghna

van Schendel, Willem

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Reise & Urlaub: Führer, Landkarten, Pläne

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.