Lawrence Lifschultz's Taher's Last Testament: Bangladesh the Unfinished Revolution gives as detailed an account as we are ever likely to have of the unsuccessful Bangladesh uprising of November 1975. The text, first published in Bombay in The Economic and Political Weekly, revolves around Abu Taher,...
Ayesha Jalal
In a comparative and historical study of the interplay between democratic politics and authoritarian states in South Asia, Ayesha Jalal explains how a shared colonial legacy led to apparently contrasting patterns of political development - democracy in India and authoritarianism in Pakistan and Bang...
M. Sirajul Islam
Samuel Y. Johnson, ABU MD. NUR ALAM
Research Article| November 01, 1991 Sedimentation and tectonics of the Sylhet trough, Bangladesh SAMUEL Y. JOHNSON; SAMUEL Y. JOHNSON 1U.S. Geological Survey, M.S. 939, Box 25046, Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225 Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar ABU MD. NUR A...
Willem van Schendel
Bangladesh is a new name for an old land whose history is little known to the wider world. A country chiefly famous in the West for media images of poverty, underdevelopment, and natural disasters, Bangladesh did not exist as an independent state until 1971. Willem van Schendel's history reveals the...
Richard D. Sisson, Leo E. Rose
A decade after the 1971 wars in South Asia, the principal decisionmakers were still uncertain why wars so clearly unwanted had occurred. The authors reconstruct the complex decisionmaking process attending the break-up of Pakistan and the subsequent war between India and Pakistan. Much of their data...
Thomas M. Franck, Nigel Rodley
In the Bangladesh crisis, two important objectives of international law appeared to be in conflict: that of peace and that of justice. The former objective is set out in the rules of the U.N. Charter against the use of force by states except in self-defense against an armed attack. The second is fou...
In a comparative and historical study of the interplay between democratic politics and authoritarian states in South Asia, Ayesha Jalal explains how a shared colonial legacy led to apparently contrasting patterns of political development - democracy in India and authoritarianism in Pakistan and Bang...
Sarah C. White
The established rhetoric of opposition between state and NGOs as development agents has shifted to one of complementarity and common interest. Along with this, the ‘comparative advantage’ claimed for NGOs has expanded from economic and welfare benefits to encompass also the political goods of civil ...
Ranabir Samaddar
Lisa Sharlach
According to the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of an ethnic, national, or religious group and/or ''deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction ...
Durganand Sinha, Henry S. R. Kao
Introduction - Durganand Sinha and Henry S R Kao Values-Development Congruence PART ONE: SOCIAL VALUES AND DEVELOPMENT: GENERAL REVIEWS Basic Indian Values and Behaviour Dispositions in the Context of National Development - Durganand Sinha An ent An l Chinese Modernisation and Social Values - Lin Fa...
David Lewis
Since its hard-won independence from Pakistan, Bangladesh has been ravaged by economic and environmental disasters. Only recently has the country begun to emerge as a fragile, but functioning, parliamentary democracy. The story of Bangladesh, told through the pages of this concise and readable book,...
Elizabeth L. Bennett, A. Neiland, Emilia Anang, Paul Bannerman et al.