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This book reclaims Bangladesh's institutional historiography by retrieving the eclipsed political parties and the inheritances from its earlier configuration as East Pakistan from 1947 to 1971. This is a striking retelling of the political parties originating under the British Raj and trekking through the post-colonial institution-building challenges in South Asia. East Pakistan's institutional experiences, political events, and identity imagination are still very relevant to Bangladesh's continuing slog in democratic institution-building. With a new trajectory for Bangladeshi political heritages, the book is intellectually relevant to anyone interested in South Asia's political development.
List of contents
Contents: The Muslim League in East Pakistan: Demise of the One- Party Dominance! - EP'S Changing Coalitions! - The Dynamics of Bengali Regionalism: Roots of Separation from Pakistan - Building Opposition in an Autocracy - The 1968-1970 Mass Movements: EP Parties' Changing Trajectory? - The 1970 Elections: An Empowerment for Bangladesh? - The 1971 Bangladesh Independence Struggle: Parties, Leaders, and their Strategies - The Kaleidoscopic Parties: Colonial Bengal, EP, and Bangladesh - Conclusion: Composite Inheritances?.
About the author
Mohammad Rashiduzzaman is a retired academic and Professor Emeritus in Political Science at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey, USA. He is amongst the known scholars who periodically write on South Asia. His narrative tapestry weaves through official records, interviews, seminars, memoirs, published and unpublished materials, research, and his analysis of the seismic protests that he personally watched in erstwhile East Pakistan. [Please see the author's introduction at the bottom of book summaries attached today.
