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...
Jon Wilson
For the century and a half before the Second World War, Britain dominated the Indian subcontinent. Britain’s East India Company ruled enclaves of land in South Asia for a century and a half before that. For these 300 years, conquerors and governors projected themselves as heroes and improvers. The B...
Naila Kabeer
Struggles for gender justice by women's movements have sought to give legal recognition to gender equality at both national and international levels. However, such society-wide goals may have little resonance in the lives of individual men and women in contexts where a culture of individual rights i...
Highlighting the dynamic, pluralistic nature of Islamic civilization, Sufia M. Uddin examines the complex history of Islamic state formation in Bangladesh, formerly the eastern part of the Indian province of Bengal. Uddin focuses on significant moments in the region's history from medieval to modern...
Rajiv Sikri
For some time now, there has been a buzz about India's growing role in the world and a widespread feeling that must play a much larger global role. Today, this feeling has become far more acute.It is important, then, that there should be greater, and more widespread, awareness of foreign policy chal...
Fareed Zakaria
American‐led globalization has enabled the third great powershift of the last five hundred years—the “rise of the rest” following on the rise of the West and then the rise of the US as the dominant power in the West. When China, India, Brazil, Turkey and the rest sit at the table of global power wit...
Sanjoy Hazarika
Reece Jones
This article investigates how expansive new security projects have gained both legitimacy and immediacy as part of the ‘global war on terror’ by analysing the process that led to the fencing and securitising of the border between India and Bangladesh. The framing of the ‘enemy other’ in the global w...
John Keay
The first single-volume history of India since the 1950s, combining narrative pace and skill with social, economic and cultural analysis. Five millennia of the sub-continent's history are interpreted by one of our finest writers on India and the Far East. Older, richer and more distinctive than almo...
Kamala Visweswaran
Healing the Forest -Cheran Rudhramoorthy Introduction: Everyday Occupations -Kamala Visweswaran Chapter 1. Qirix: An Inverted Rhapsody on Kurdish National Struggle, Gender, and Everyday Life in Diyarbaki -Serap Ruken Sengul Chapter 2. The War Zone in My Heart: The Occupation of Southern Sri Lanka -S...
Srinath Raghavan
The war of 1971 that created Bangladesh was the most significant geopolitical event in the Indian subcontinent since partition in 1947. It tilted the balance of power between India and Pakistan steeply in favor of India. Srinath Raghavan contends that the crisis and its cast of characters can be und...
Habiba Zaman
Myron Weiner
The political implications of large-scale illegal migration from Bangladesh to Assam India are considered. The author notes that Assamese middle classes feared the loss of political control when the central government called for elections after there was a marked increase in the number of migrants o...
Rounaq Jahan
Established as a homeland for India s Muslims in 1947, Pakistan has had a tumultuous history that has unfolded in the vortex of dire regional and international conflicts. Beset by assassinations, coups, ethnic strife, and the breakaway of Bangladesh in 1971, the country has found itself too often co...