A History of Bangladesh
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23398481 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Willem Van Schendel (0000-0001-7641-4056, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Publication date | 2009-02-12 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | History of Bangladesh (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9780511997419 |
| OpenAlex | W4247120720 |
| Open Library | OL34513287M |
| ISBN | 9780511997419 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 112 |
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 country's vibrant, colourful past and its diverse culture as it navigates the extraordinary twists and turns that have created modern Bangladesh. The story begins with the early geological history of the delta which has decisively shaped Bangladesh society. The narrative then moves chronologically through the era of colonial rule, the partition of Bengal, the war with Pakistan and the birth of Bangladesh as an independent state. In so doing, it reveals the forces that have made Bangladesh what it is today. This is an eloquent introduction to a fascinating country and its resilient and inventive people.
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · BENGAL · Colonialism · Development economics · Geography · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Poverty · State (computer science) · Underdevelopment · Bangladesh Politics, Society, and Development · History · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · asia · Bangladesh · Maatschappij
Famine and the fragile state
Robust-yet-fragile nature of partly engineered social-ecological systems
The Postcolony and Its Radio
Anglophone Cosmopolitan Perspectives of Zia Haider Rahman and Kamila Shamsie
The contested legacy of Rabindrasangīt
Increasing the provision of mental health care for vulnerable, disaster-affected people in Bangladesh
Famine at birth
Mangled Homes, Tangled Homeland
Advancing intelligence analysis
To speak or not to speak Urdu
Ketil Bjørnstad's Nåde
Communal violence in Bangladesh
Mobility aspirations and indigenous belonging among Chakma students in Dhaka
Talking about mobility’
Rivers and canals as “other factors” in the partition of India
Transformation of the coastal social-ecological system in southwest Bangladesh due to empolderment
Advertising nationalism
The gangs of Bangladesh
A Rationalist Explanation for Violence and Peace in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh
Agency and the Making of Transient Urban Spaces
Migration, Informal Labour and (Trans) Local Productions of Urban Space – The Case of Dhaka's Street Food Vendors
Displacement and the production of difference
Dis-comforting bodies
The construction of the ‘new Bengali woman’ in Nasiruddin Yousuff’s Guerrilla (2011)
Interpretive framework in Muktir Gaan (Song of Freedom, 1995)
Killer not terrorist
Bangladesh at 55
Muscular nationalism, masculinist militarism
Telling the past – the history of victimization
Coming Down on the Winning Side
Port reform, South Asian migrant workers and spaces of vulnerability in Port Klang, Malaysia
Lefebvre in the digital city
Peace in the Household
The limits of political-elite diplomacy
Dreaming of a Golden Bengal
Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971
Dynamics of Pakistan’s Disintegration
Islam’s role in Bangladesh–Pakistan Alignment against India under the BNP’s Rule
Migration, mobility and changing power relations
Blood splattered Bengal
Students, movements, and the threat to authoritarianism in Bangladesh
Neglecting the urban poor in Bangladesh
Bangladesh’s “Father of the Nation” and the Transnational Politics of Memory
Moving away from technocratic framing
The India–Bangladesh Border Fence
Understanding Children’s Power in Bangladesh’s Informal Settlements
Towards a Panchronic Perspective on a Diachronic Issue
Education for diversity
The Language Movement in East Pakistan and the Bengali Ekushey Fiction as Postcolonial Resistance
Remembering Bangladesh
Working at the Ichapur Gunpowder Factory in the 1790s (Part I)
On the Way to India
Bangladeshi New Women’s ‘Smart’ Dressing
The Blue Frontier
Islamo-nationalism, domestic politics, and Bangladesh’s policy of balancing against India since the 1990s
Introduction. Imagining Bangladesh
When migrants become hosts and nonmigrants become mobile
Entre mer et fleuves, la terre en partage dans le delta du Gange-Brahmapoutre
Indigenous Ethnic Students in the Mainstream Education of Bangladesh
Political Hostility and Local Government Crisis in Bangladesh
From popular uprisings to divergent trajectories
The patron and the madman
Yearning for faraway places
Historical Continuities in South Asian Film Narratives
Not Islamic enough
Gendered Nationalism
Changing Frontiers
Biharis in Bangladesh and Their Restricted Access to Citizenship Rights
Times of Work and Social Life
Wither the ‘development contract’? Historical conjunctures in Naomi Hossain’s The Aid Lab
Towards a theory of fragile state transitions
The Partition and Bengal, seventy-five years on
Stranded in statelessness
TheIndian nation and selective amnesia
Rational Islamists
Negotiating Middle-class Respectable Femininity
A Campus in Context
Performing the Party. National Holiday Events and Politics at a Public University Campus in Bangladesh
The Hindu as Other
The State of Relief on the Bangladesh-India Border
The 'Public Life' of the Bengal Diaspora
Who Supports Suicide Terrorism in Bangladesh? What the Data Say
Beyond national(ist) binaries
Understanding the Legacy of the Gulf Cooperation Council and Turkey on Bangladesh Politics
The Crisis of National Identity
Linked in translation
Marketisation of Islam and politics of development in Bangladesh
The 1970 Bhola cyclone, nationalist politics, and the subsistence crisis contract in Bangladesh
The Moral Economy of Microfinance in Rural Bangladesh
The Decline of Gangsters and Politicization of Violence in Urban Bangladesh
Introduction
May you live with us forever Father!' Rethinking state and kinship among Bangladeshi long-distance nationalists in London
Labour power and bossing
Threatening Dystopias
Patriarchal Investments
Muslim Treatment of Other Religions in Medieval Bengal
Hartal as a complex political performance
Slippery Entanglements
To Whom Does the City Belong? Obstacles to Right to the City for the Urban Poor in Bangladesh
Histories of Belonging(s)
| Unique citing works | 112 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 110 |