Bangladesh’s Monsoon Uprising

How a Student Revolt Toppled Asia’s Iron Lady
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-981-9239-19-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 179 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Politics of South Asia

This Palgrave Pivot provides an authoritative account of the unexpected toppling of Bangladesh’s powerful Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2024. Written by a journalist and an academic who were close observers and analysis of the increasingly authoritarian 15-year regime, the book provides a key source of the sequence of events and critical turning points, motivations and behaviour of key actors, and the grievances that drove the movement. An account of one of the most surprising democratic revolutions in recent times, the book contributes to the scholarly literature on contentious politics and protest movements. It will be a valuable addition to debates about politics in the world’s eighth largest nation, addressing some of the myths and conspiracies that have sprung up in its wake and examining the prospects for democratic restoration in the post-uprising period.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hossain, Naomi

Bergman, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: The Ouster of Sheikh Hasina.- Chapter 1: August 5th: a second liberation.- Chapter 2: The student-people protest movement.- Chapter 3: The deeper roots of the uprising.- Part 2: The Awami League in power,- Chapter 4: A political history of the Awami League.- Chapter 5: The Awami League 2009-24.- Part 3: Bangladesh post-Hasina.- Chapter 6: After the uprising: reprisals and a breakdown of law and order.- Chapter 7: An interim government under Professor Yunus.- Chapter 8: The struggle for accountability.- Chapter 9: Rebuilding amid disinformation and the re-ordering of international relations.- Chapter 10: Towards Elections.

Über Autor(innen)

Naomi Hossain is the Global Research Professor of Development Studies at SOAS University of London. Her recent authored and co-edited books include (2017, Oxford University Press; 2025, UPL Books); (2019, Oxford University Press) and (2017, Routledge Earthscan). was named by the Economist as one of its five must-reads about Bangladesh.

David Bergman is a journalist and researcher working between London and Dhaka. In recent months, since the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government, he has written on Bangladesh for the and the as well as researching the law enforcement killings that took place in July/August for the International Truth and Justice Project. In 2000, He was a founder and Editor of , an investigative website on Bangladesh and was involved in making the award winning Al Jazeera documentary, , broadcast in 2022.