A collection of accounts of everyday life within a range of communities, such as Punjabi, Gujarati, Bangladeshi, Hindu, Muslim and Sikh. Taken together, they highlight common features and diversities in a variety of spheres, such as discrimination, religion and integration.
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...
Diane P. Mines, Sarah Lamb
Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration MapIntroductionI. The Family and the CourseIntroductionOne Straw from a Broom Cannot Sweep: The Ideology and Practice of the Joint Family in Rural North India Susan S. WadleyAllah Gives Both Boys and Girls Patricia Jeffery and Roger JefferyOut Here in Kathman...
Gyanendra Pandey
Much has been written about the extraordinary violence of recent history, its brutality, and the impossibility of describing it. Routine Violence focuses on the violence of much more routine political practices - the drawing up of political categories and the writing of national histories. The book ...
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...
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...
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...
Nayanika Mookherjee
This article explores the processes through which the ‘public secrecy’ of rape during the Bangladesh war of 1971 operates within the present‐day ethnographic context. It examines contemporary commemorations of the war and of women who have achieved local and national fame as rape victims (euphemisti...
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
Reece Jones
The narratives of fear and uncertainty from the discourse of the ‘global war on terror’ have been used by many governments to expand securitization processes. As more aggressive security tactics have been deployed, scholars have sought to understand the changing relationship between individual right...
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...