The Emergence of Bangladesh Interdisciplinary Perspectives

The Emergence of Bangladesh analyses and celebrates the first 50 years of Bangladesh as a nation, bringing insights from key scholars in Bangladeshi studies to an international audience, as well as ‘bringing home’ to a domestic audience the work of some of the nation’s greatest intellectual exports, the Bangladeshi scholars who have made a mark in their field of study in academia. The book offers unique coverage of the battlegrounds on which the founding of the new nation was fought, including language, power and religion, and provides unique insight into some of the hot spots that continue to shape the development of the nation: the issues of gender, culture, ethnicity, governance, the economy and the army. Those with an interest in understanding the past or present Bangladesh will find this a trove of frank and readable analysis.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Political and Economic Context Underlying the Emergence of Bangladesh.- Chapter 3: Wind of Change: Bhola 1970.- Chapter 4: War Babies of 1971: A Missing Historical Narrative.- Chapter 5: The Making of the Bangladesh Constitution.- Chapter 6: Bengali Identity, Secularism and the Language Movement.- Chapter 7: Religious Radicalization in Bangladesh.- Chapter 8: The Making of Minorities in Bangladesh: Legacies, Policies and Practice.- Chapter 9: The Political Economy of Development: Bangladesh From Its Emergence toward the Future.- Chapter 10: Human Development in Bangladesh: A Dynamic Trajectory.- Chapter 11: Government—Business Relationships in Bangladesh.- Chapter 12: Gender and Development.- Chapter 13: Livelihoods and Food Security of the Indigenous Peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh: Factors of Change and Future Prospects.- Chapter 14: The Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh.-  Chapter 15: Climate Change and Displacement: Locating the Most Vulnerable Groups.- Chapter 16: Retracing Accountability in the Bangladeshi Public Administration.- Chapter 17: The Changing Role of the Bangladesh Military: 1971 to 2020—The Evolving Bangladesh Defense Policy.- Chapter 18: The Evolution of Education Policy in Bangladesh: Past and Present.- Chapter 19: Success and Its Consequences: Bangladesh’s Health Report Card at 50.- Chapter 20: The Emerging Diaspora of Bangladesh: Fifty Years of Overseas Movements and Settlements.- Chapter 21: Bangladeshi Mediascape: Political and Corporate Power.- Chapter 22: Film in Bangladesh: Cultural Transformation of a National Cinema within and beyond the Nation-state.- Chapter 23: Hip-Hop Music Activism: A New Phenomenon in Bangladeshi Popular Culture.- Chapter 24: Global Bangladesh.