... the social and economic hardships experienced by Dalit communities in Bangladesh. This article demonstrates that there is a longer history of engagements with the caste question among social scientists in East Pakistan and Bangladesh; however, the endemic practice of identifying caste inequity exclusively...

...Val Moghadam State and Ideology in the Middle East and Pakistan edited by Fred Halliday and Hamza Alavi New York: Monthly Review Press, 1988 267 pages, including Index. $11 pb Copyright 1988: South Asia Bulletin 1989 South Asia Bulletin, volume 9 number 1 (1989) outline...

...Zakir Hossain Raju This article investigates the indigenization of cinema, from production to reception, within the broader social, political, and cultural domain of early- to mid-twentieth-century East Bengal/Pakistan. As an attempt to fill certain gaps in South Asian film studies, Raju’s essay...

.... President Ayub Khan's two ambitious urban projects—Islamabad, the new capital city of Pakistan and Ayub-Nagar (renamed Sher-e-Bangla Nagar), and a second capitol complex in East Pakistan—brought together local and foreign stakeholders with differing interpretations of the idea of “Pakistan.” A significant...

.... This article analyzes the (non)governance of divided territories, drawing on the analogy of divided Pakistan. The case of East Pakistan/Bangladesh serves as an example of the difficulties embodied in governing geographically separated territories. This article proposes that autonomous Palestine is seemingly...

.... This statement by a member of Projonmo Ekattor would also be deemed to be highly politicized and not necessarily an unmediated voice of “the people.” Nonetheless, these individuals are also highly respected as critical voices against both the role of the Pakistani army during 1971 in East Pakistan...

... Ma”: FromFrom Nation Nation to to “Inter”- “Inter”- Nation Nation Animesh Baidya n the subcontinent was partitioned into India and West and East Pakistan...

...Naveeda Khan Abstract Khan comments on the essays that appear in a special section of the Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East titled “The Past for Pakistan.” In particular, she draws out the aspect of the remains that haunt Pakistan into which the essays give us insight...

... Works Programme , Dhaka: IRWP. Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, (n.d.) “Short Note on Integrated Rural Development Programme, East Pakistan,” Dhaka, Bangladesh. Pakistan Academy for Rural Development ( 1963 ). The Comilla Rural Administration Experiment, History and Annual...

... and coer- recent history of Asia Even after the secession of East cion. Why did this happen? If one accepts the 'state in it- Pakistan the central regimes in Pakistan have failed to self' concept of Theda Skocpol, this is in the very nature of come to grips with the specifics of Pakistani...

...Gail Minault Tariq Rahman. Language and Politics in Pakistan . Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1996. 320 pp. No price listed, cloth. © 1999: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1999 Book Review Tariq Rahman. Language and Politics in Pakistan...

...: Basic Democracies in Pakistan . Islamabad : Bureau of National Reconstruction, Government of Pakistan , 1960 . Rashiduzzaman M. Politics and Administration in the Local Councils: A Study of Union and District Councils in East Pakistan . Karachi : Oxford University Press , 1968...

... dropping these two pillars from the the then East Pakistan was brought under the total con- Constitution in 1977. It is interesting to note that in trol of the West wing. In the sixties, mainly for political Bangladesh the pro-socialist government had to fall reasons, they took the initiative to create...

...- '' stitution that would be acceptable to all the provinces, and tion. addressing the demands of the smaller nationalities that had Thus, when General Yahya Khan refused to honor the grown louder since the separation of East Pakistan. It was a results...

... derive their political spheres disillusioned the Bengalis.21 The inspirations from different sources of history. They eruption of the language movement in East Pakistan have different epics, different heroes and different epi- soon after...

... East, viz. Libya, Saudi Arabia, and the small sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf. The majority of these workers have come from countries like Egypt, North Yemen, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, which surround the Persian Gulf and have relatively large populations but scarce capital resources. More...

...Figure 6. Film history denoted by maps of East and West Pakistan. Pakistan Film Magazine , February 17, 2017. ...

... thousand respectively.” pact of the use of such technology on small farmers and ten- has led either to no economic improvement or they have One important reason for the separation of East Pakistan ants...

... such follower, and he discusses at length Hashim's increasing irrelevancy in the politics of East Bengal in his The Social History of East Pakistan . 18. Here I am following Susan Buck-Morss's lead in Thinking Past Terror to evaluate Islamist political discourses as examples of mid-twentieth...