The Emergence of Bangladesh

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.

Provides a critical analysis of the birth and emergence of the new nation

Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: The Political and Economic Context Underlying the Emergence of BangladeshChapter 3: Wind of Change: Bhola 1970Chapter 4: War Babies of 1971: A Missing Historical NarrativeChapter 5: The Making of the Bangladesh ConstitutionChapter 6: Bengali Identity, Secularism and the Language MovementChapter 7: Religious Radicalization in BangladeshChapter 8: The Making of Minorities in Bangladesh: Legacies, Policies and PracticeChapter 9: The Political Economy of Development: Bangladesh From Its Emergence toward the FutureChapter 10: Human Development in Bangladesh: A Dynamic TrajectoryChapter 11: Government-Business Relationships in BangladeshChapter 12: Gender and DevelopmentChapter 13: Livelihoods and Food Security of the Indigenous Peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh: Factors of Change and Future ProspectsChapter 14: The Chittagong Hill Tracts, BangladeshChapter 15: Climate Change and Displacement: Locating the Most Vulnerable GroupsChapter 16: Retracing Accountability in the Bangladeshi Public AdministrationChapter 17: The Changing Role of the Bangladesh Military: 1971 to 2020-The Evolving Bangladesh Defense PolicyChapter 18: The Evolution of Education Policy in Bangladesh: Past and PresentChapter 19: Success and Its Consequences: Bangladesh's Health Report Card at 50Chapter 20: The Emerging Diaspora of Bangladesh: Fifty Years of Overseas Movements and Settlements Chapter 21: Bangladeshi Mediascape: Political and Corporate PowerChapter 22: Film in Bangladesh: Cultural Transformation of a National Cinema within and beyond the Nation-stateChapter 23: Hip-Hop Music Activism: A New Phenomenon in Bangladeshi Popular CultureChapter 24: Global Bangladesh