Willem van Schendel served as Professor of Modern Asian History at the University of Amsterdam.
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List of Plates List of Maps and Figures Acknowledgements Timeline Preface to second edition Introduction Part I. The Long View 1. A land of water and silt 2. Jungle, fields, cities and states 3. A region of multiple frontiers 4. The delta as a crossroads Part II. Colonial Encounters 5. From the Mughal empire to the British empire 6. British legacies 7. A closing agrarian frontier 8. Colonial conflicts 9. Towards Partition 10. Partition 11. Population exchange Part III. Becoming East Pakistan 12. The Pakistan experiment 13. Pakistan falls apart 14. East Pakistani livelihoods 15. The roots of aid dependence 16. A new elite and cultural renewal Part IV. War and the Birth of Bangladesh 17. Armed conflict 18. A state is born 19. Imagining a new nation Part V. Independent Bangladesh 20. Shaping a political system 21. The triumph of identity politics 22. Transnational linkages 23. Boom or bust? 24. Gender movements 25. A national culture? Conclusions Bangladesh district maps Key political figures since 1947 Glossary of Bengali terms Notes Bibliography Index
List of Plates List of Maps and Figures Acknowledgements Timeline Preface to second edition Introduction Part I. The Long View 1. A land of water and silt 2. Jungle, fields, cities and states 3. A region of multiple frontiers 4. The delta as a crossroads Part II. Colonial Encounters 5. From the Mughal empire to the British empire 6. British legacies 7. A closing agrarian frontier 8. Colonial conflicts 9. Towards Partition 10. Partition 11. Population exchange Part III. Becoming East Pakistan 12. The Pakistan experiment 13. Pakistan falls apart 14. East Pakistani livelihoods 15. The roots of aid dependence 16. A new elite and cultural renewal Part IV. War and the Birth of Bangladesh 17. Armed conflict 18. A state is born 19. Imagining a new nation Part V. Independent Bangladesh 20. Shaping a political system 21. The triumph of identity politics 22. Transnational linkages 23. Boom or bust? 24. Gender movements 25. A national culture? Conclusions Bangladesh district maps Key political figures since 1947 Glossary of Bengali terms Notes Bibliography Index
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