The Bangladesh Reader

History, Culture, Politics
Herausgeber: Guhathakurta, Meghna; Schendel, Willem Van

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 568
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 165mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 980g
• ISBN-13: 9780822353041
• ISBN-10: 0822353040
• Artikelnr.: 36691498

Autorenporträt

Meghna Guhathakurta and Willem van Schendel, eds.

Inhaltsangabe

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