Pranab Kumar Panday
This article explores the state of women's participation in the political process in Bangladesh. Available data substantiates that women's organizations, donors, and nongovernmental organizations have influenced the government of Bangladesh to introduce quotas for women. Although quotas have increas...
Bangladesch
Kasia Paprocki
Development in Bangladesh is increasingly defined by and through an adaptation regime, a socially and historically specific configuration of power that governs the landscape of possible intervention in the face of climate change. It includes institutions of development, research, media, and science,...
Willem van Schendel
“ Only in the eyes of the law are we indians.” With these words Anu Chairman sketched the position of tens of thousands of people living beyond the reach of state and nation in dozens of enclaves in South Asia. Much of the recent wave of literature on the nation is concerned with critiquing an earli...
Wayne Patterson, Hugh Tinker
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,...
Betsy Hartmann, James K. Boyce
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Making of a Village 2. Behind Bamboo Walls 3. The Classes 4. Who Works? Who Eats? 5. Interventions
Martha Alter Chen
Willem van Schendel
This paper deals with socio-cultural innovation in the hills of southeastern Bangladesh. Outsiders have always been struck by the ethnic diversity of this area. The literature—written mainly by British civil servants, Bengali men of letters, and European anthropologists—presents a picture of twelve ...
Md. Imdadul Haque, A. B. M. Alauddin Chowdhury, Md Shahjahan, Md. Golam Dostogir Harun
BACKGROUND: Traditional healing practice is an important and integral part of healthcare systems in almost all countries of the world. Very few studies have addressed the holistic scenario of traditional healing practices in Bangladesh, although these serve around 80% of the ailing people. This stud...
Akbar S. Ahmed, Betsy Hartmann, James K. Boyce
Rachana Chakraborty
"The Spectral Wound: sexual violence, public memories and the Bangladesh war of 1971." Social History, 41(3), pp. 343–344
Willem van Schendel
Bangladesh did not exist as an independent state until 1971. Willem van Schendel's state-of-the-art history navigates the extraordinary twists and turns that created modern Bangladesh through ecological disaster, colonialism, partition, a war of independence and cultural renewal. In this revised and...
M. J. Gillan
For South Asia, it is axiomatic that the experience of nation state formation and notions of national identity for three nations within the region (India, Pakistan and Bangladesh) have been accompanied and conditioned by the mass movement of displaced peoples. In the case of Bangladesh, a violent ca...
Vicente Navarro
Presented here is a critical analysis of some of the major theses of Amartya Sen, as presented in his seminal work Development As Freedom. The author suggests that Sen's work, while representing a major break with the dominant neoliberal position reproduced in most national and international develop...