Fifty years of Bangladesh, 1971-2021 : crises of culture, development, governance, and identity / Taj Hashmi.
Hashmi, Taj ul-Islam, 1948- author.
2022
DS394.5
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Title Fifty years of Bangladesh, 1971-2021 : crises of culture, development, governance, and identity / Taj Hashmi.
Author Hashmi, Taj ul-Islam, 1948- author.
ISBN 9783030971588 (electronic bk.)
3030971589 (electronic bk.)
9783030971571
3030971570
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97158-8
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xix, 388 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-97158-8 doi
Call Number DS394.5
Dewey Decimal Classification 954.9205
Summary This book, the first historical sociology of its kind concerning Bangladesh, examines the country's what-went-wrong-syndrome during the first fifty years of its existence, 1971-2021. The work is an exception to the traditional studies on modern and contemporary Bangladesh. The study is also a post-history of united Pakistan. Busting several myths, it sheds light on many known and unknown facts about the history, politics, society, and culture of the country. Besides being a twice-born country liberated twice, from the British in 1947 and from West Pakistanis in 1971 it is also an artificial entity suffering from acute crises of culture, development, governance, and identity. Hashmi attributes the culture and identity crises to the demographic byproducts of bad governance. In addition to being overpopulated, Bangladesh is also resource-poor and has one of the most unskilled populations, largely lumpen elements and peasants. According to Marx, these people represent "the unchanging remnants of the past." The second round of independence empowered these lumpen classes, who suffer from an identity crisis and never learn the art of governance. The proliferation of pseudo-history about liberation has further divided the polity between the two warring tribes who only glorify their respective idols, Mujib and Zia. Pre-political and pre-capitalist peasants / lumpen elements lack of mutual trust and respect have further plagued Bangladesh, turning it into one of the least governable, corrupt, and inefficient countries. It is essential to replace the pre-capitalist order of the country run by multiple lumpen classes with capitalist and inclusive institutions. Taj Hashmi is retired Professor of History and Security Studies at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS), USA.
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Introduction
Why Bangladesh? A prehistory up to the rise of Mujib, 1757-1963
The rise of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, 1963-1971
The decline and fall of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, 1972-1975
Trial and error, hope and despair : Bangladesh under Zia and Ershad, 1975-1990
"Dynastic democracy" under the "battling Begums", 1991-2021
Problematic integration of minorities : a case study of Bihari Muslims
The crisis of identity : Bengali, Islamic, or Islamist extremism?
"Culture matters" : towards understanding the crisis of culture in Bangladesh
Conclusions.

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