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A history of Bangladesh / by Willem van Schendel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, c2009.Description: xxvi, 347 p. : ill., maps. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780521861748 (hbk.)
  • 0521861748 (hbk.)
  • 9780521121903
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 954.92 22 SCH
Contents:
A land of water and silt -- Jungle, fields, cities and states -- A region of multiple frontiers -- The delta as a crossroads -- From the Mughal empire to the British empire -- The British impact -- A closing agrarian frontier -- Colonial conflicts -- Towards partition -- Partition -- The Pakistan experiment -- Pakistan falls apart -- East Pakistani livelihoods -- The roots of aid dependence -- A new elite and cultural renewal -- Armed conflict -- A state is born -- Imagining a new society -- Creating a political system -- Transnational linkages -- Bursting at the seams -- A national culture? -- Conclusion.
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Books Books Seminar Library, Department of Political Studies General Stacks 954.92 SCH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0058633

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-333) and index.

A land of water and silt -- Jungle, fields, cities and states -- A region of multiple frontiers -- The delta as a crossroads -- From the Mughal empire to the British empire -- The British impact -- A closing agrarian frontier -- Colonial conflicts -- Towards partition -- Partition -- The Pakistan experiment -- Pakistan falls apart -- East Pakistani livelihoods -- The roots of aid dependence -- A new elite and cultural renewal -- Armed conflict -- A state is born -- Imagining a new society -- Creating a political system -- Transnational linkages -- Bursting at the seams -- A national culture? -- Conclusion.

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