The Emergence of Bangladesh

Habibul Haque Khondker (Ph.D University of Pittsburgh) is Professor of Sociology at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi. He is the co-editor of Covid-19 and Governance (Routledge, 2021), Asia and Europe in Globalization (Brill, 2006). He co-authored with Bryan Turner, Globalization East and West (Sage, 2010). His research is on global studies. Olav Muurlink has been involved with education development in Bangladesh, principally Bhola, for 25 years. He is Head of Country, Bangladesh, and chair of the Australian NGO Cooperation in Development (Australia) Incorporated,. He is associate professor in sustainable innovation at Central Queensland University in Brisbane, and formerly Senior Research Fellow at Griffith University. Asif Bin Ali, a journalist turned academic, is Erasmus Mundus Fellow (2019-2021) at Swansea University, the UK, and Aarhus University, Denmark. He is the lead editor of Buddhist Nationalism Rohingya Crisis and Contemporary Politics (2019).

Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: The Political and Economic Context Underlying the Emergence of BangladeshChapter 3: Wind of Change: Bhola 1970Chapter 4: War Babies of 1971: A Missing Historical NarrativeChapter 5: The Making of the Bangladesh ConstitutionChapter 6: Bengali Identity, Secularism and the Language MovementChapter 7: Religious Radicalization in BangladeshChapter 8: The Making of Minorities in Bangladesh: Legacies, Policies and PracticeChapter 9: The Political Economy of Development: Bangladesh From Its Emergence toward the FutureChapter 10: Human Development in Bangladesh: A Dynamic TrajectoryChapter 11: Government—Business Relationships in BangladeshChapter 12: Gender and DevelopmentChapter 13: Livelihoods and Food Security of the Indigenous Peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh: Factors of Change and Future ProspectsChapter 14: The Chittagong Hill Tracts, BangladeshChapter 15: Climate Change and Displacement: Locating the Most Vulnerable GroupsChapter 16: Retracing Accountability in the Bangladeshi Public AdministrationChapter 17: The Changing Role of the Bangladesh Military: 1971 to 2020—The Evolving Bangladesh Defense PolicyChapter 18: The Evolution of Education Policy in Bangladesh: Past and PresentChapter 19: Success and Its Consequences: Bangladesh’s Health Report Card at 50Chapter 20: The Emerging Diaspora of Bangladesh: Fifty Years of Overseas Movements and Settlements Chapter 21: Bangladeshi Mediascape: Political and Corporate PowerChapter 22: Film in Bangladesh: Cultural Transformation of a National Cinema within and beyond the Nation-stateChapter 23: Hip-Hop Music Activism: A New Phenomenon in Bangladeshi Popular CultureChapter 24: Global Bangladesh