Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan

The Emergence of Bangladesh

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

  • Book
  • © 2022

Overview

Editors:
  1. Habibul Khondker

    1. Department of Social Sciences, Zayed University, Khalifa City, United Arab Emirates

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Olav Muurlink

    1. School of Business and Law, Central Queensland University, Brisbane, Australia

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  3. Asif Bin Ali

    1. Department of History and Philosophy, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

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

  • Covers key events written by scholars of global reputation in South Asian studies

  • Coincides with the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Bangladesh

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction

    • Habibul Khondker, Olav Muurlink, Asif Bin Ali
    Pages 1-5

  3. The Political and Economic Context Underlying the Emergence of Bangladesh

    • Rehman Sobhan, Habibul Khondker
    Pages 7-24

  4. Wind of Change: Bhola 1970

    • Olav Muurlink
    Pages 25-37

  5. War Babies of 1971: A Missing Historical Narrative

    • Mustafa Chowdhury
    Pages 39-55

  6. The Making of the Bangladesh Constitution

    • Kamal Hossain
    Pages 57-65

  7. Bengali Identity, Secularism and the Language Movement

    • Tazeen M. Murshid
    Pages 67-86

  8. Religious Radicalization in Bangladesh

    • Ali Riaz
    Pages 87-108

  9. The Making of Minorities in Bangladesh: Legacies, Policies and Practice

    • Meghna Guhathakurta
    Pages 109-133

  10. The Political Economy of Development: Bangladesh From Its Emergence toward the Future

    • Haider A. Khan, Shamayeta Rahman
    Pages 135-155

  11. Human Development in Bangladesh: A Dynamic Trajectory

    • Selim Jahan
    Pages 157-176

  12. Government—Business Relationships in Bangladesh

    • Syed Akhtar Mahmood
    Pages 177-202

  13. Gender and Development

    • Shelley Feldman
    Pages 203-228

  14. Livelihoods and Food Security of the Indigenous Peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh: Factors of Change and Future Prospects

    • Shapan Adnan
    Pages 229-250

  15. The Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh

    • Amena Mohsin
    Pages 251-258

  16. Climate Change and Displacement: Locating the Most Vulnerable Groups

    • Tasneem Siddiqui
    Pages 259-272

  17. Retracing Accountability in the Bangladeshi Public Administration

    • Quamrul Alam, Shibaab Rahman, Julian Teicher
    Pages 273-292

  18. The Changing Role of the Bangladesh Military: 1971 to 2020—The Evolving Bangladesh Defense Policy

    • Mahmud Ur Rahman Choudhury
    Pages 293-315

  19. The Evolution of Education Policy in Bangladesh: Past and Present

    • Mak (Chanchal) Khan
    Pages 317-338

  20. Success and Its Consequences: Bangladesh’s Health Report Card at 50

    • Olav Muurlink, Pratima Durga, Nabil Awan, Andrew Taylor-Robinson
    Pages 339-354
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

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.

Reviews

The book tells the story of the emergence of Bangladesh and the first fifty years of its economic, political, social and cultural developments based on articles written by scholars who actively participated in events creating the nation's history as well as by other academics who are leading experts in their respective fields. It has been imaginatively conceived and includes many topics which have not been adequately discussed so far. The study will be an invaluable resource for teachers and students of Bangladesh and South Asian studies as it provides a comprehensive analysis of the country's multifaceted developments.

Professor Rounaq Jahan - Political Scientist and Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Policy Dialogue, Dhaka.

Bangladesh is a fascinating development story: surprising success despite a bloody birth and seemingly hopeless odds. This uniquely rich collection of essays provides authentic multi-disciplinary narratives from Bangladeshi scholars who have had a front-row view of the nation’s 50-year journey of socio-economic progress amid many contradictions and paradoxes. The wide range of topics make the book particularly valuable for understanding the economic and political dynamics of the country as embedded in the settings of socio-cultural transformation. The book will also be of interest to scholars interested in a broad-brush approach to understanding development in the countries of the Global South generally.

Dr. Wahiduddin Mahmud

Former Professor of economics, University of Dhaka; former Adviser to the Caretaker Government of Bangladesh; and author of Markets, Morals and Development: Rethinking Economics from a Developing Country Perspective (Routledge, 2021).

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Social Sciences, Zayed University, Khalifa City, United Arab Emirates

    Habibul Khondker

  • School of Business and Law, Central Queensland University, Brisbane, Australia

    Olav Muurlink

  • Department of History and Philosophy, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Asif Bin Ali

About the editors

Habibul Haque Khondker (Ph.D University of Pittsburgh) is Professor of Sociology at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi. He is the co-editor of Covid-19 and Governance (Routledge, 2021), Asia and Europe in Globalization (Brill, 2006). He co-authored with Bryan Turner, Globalization East and West (Sage, 2010). His research is on global studies.

Olav Muurlink has been involved with education development in Bangladesh, principally Bhola, for 25 years. He is Head of Country, Bangladesh, and chair of the Australian NGO Cooperation in Development (Australia) Incorporated,. He is associate professor in sustainable innovation at Central Queensland University in Brisbane, and formerly Senior Research Fellow at Griffith University.

Asif Bin Ali, a journalist turned academic, is Erasmus Mundus Fellow (2019-2021) at Swansea University, the UK, and Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the lead editor of Buddhist Nationalism Rohingya Crisis and Contemporary Politics (2019).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Emergence of Bangladesh

  • Book Subtitle: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

  • Editors: Habibul Khondker, Olav Muurlink, Asif Bin Ali

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5521-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-5520-3Published: 23 February 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-5523-4Published: 24 February 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-5521-0Published: 22 February 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 443

  • Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Human Geography, Cities, Countries, Regions, History of South Asia, Political History

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation