Intimation of revolution : global sixties and the making of Bangladesh / Subho Basu.
By: Basu, Subho.
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BookLanguage: eng.Publisher: New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023Description: 412p.; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781009329866.Other title: Global sixties and the making of Bangladesh.Subject(s): Nationalism -- Bangladesh -- History -- 20th century | Bangladesh -- Politics and government | Bangladesh -- History -- Revolution, 1971DDC classification: 954.9204 Summary: "Intimation of Revolution: Global Sixties and the Making of Bangladesh studies the rise of Bengali nationalism in East Pakistan in the fifties and the sixties by showcasing the interactions between global politics and local social and economic developments. It argues that the revolution of 1969 and the national liberation struggle of 1971 were informed by the global sixties that transformed the political landscape of Pakistan and facilitated the birth of Bangladesh. Departing from the typical understanding of Bangladesh as a product of Indo-Pakistani diplomatic and military rivalry, this book narrates how Bengali nationalists resisted the processes of internal colonization by the Pakistani military-bureaucratic regime to fashion their own nation. It details how this process of resistance and nation-formation drew on contemporaneous decolonization movements in Asia, Africa and Latin America while also being shaped by the Cold War rivalries between the United Sates, the Soviet Union and China"--
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| 954.6 R3 Kashmir : the land of rishis : | 954.798 R2 City of facades : | 954.84 R2 Travel account of Andhradesa : | 954.9204 R3 Intimation of revolution : | 954.92051 R2 Fifty years of the 1971 war: | 958.1 R4 Afghanistan: | 959.1 R4 Indo-Burma frontier and the making of the Chin hills: |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Intimation of Revolution: Global Sixties and the Making of Bangladesh studies the rise of Bengali nationalism in East Pakistan in the fifties and the sixties by showcasing the interactions between global politics and local social and economic developments. It argues that the revolution of 1969 and the national liberation struggle of 1971 were informed by the global sixties that transformed the political landscape of Pakistan and facilitated the birth of Bangladesh. Departing from the typical understanding of Bangladesh as a product of Indo-Pakistani diplomatic and military rivalry, this book narrates how Bengali nationalists resisted the processes of internal colonization by the Pakistani military-bureaucratic regime to fashion their own nation. It details how this process of resistance and nation-formation drew on contemporaneous decolonization movements in Asia, Africa and Latin America while also being shaped by the Cold War rivalries between the United Sates, the Soviet Union and China"--
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