...Marcus Franda Bangladesh: Constitutional Quest for Autonomy, 1950–1971 . By Moudud Ahmed . Wiesbaden : Franz Steiner Verlag , 1978 . xvi, 318 pp. Appendix. $16. Bangladesh Politics . Edited by Emajuddin Ahmed . Dacca : Centre for Social Studies, Dacca University , 1980 . ii, 187...

...Donald W. Attwood The Agrarian Structure of Bangladesh: An Impediment to Development . By F. Tomasson Jannuzi and James T. Peach . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1980 . xv, 150 pp. Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $20. Productivity and Equity in IRDP Cooperative Irrigation...

...Robert LaPorte, Jr Privatization in Bangladesh: Economic Transition in a Poor Country . By Clare E. Humphrey . Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press , 1990 . xii, 275 pp. $36.50 (paper). The Grameen Bank: Poverty Relief in Bangladesh . Edited by Abu N. M. Wahid . Boulder, Colo...

...John P. Thorp Abstract In 1981 Bangladesh celebrated its first decade of independence. This milestone was marked by a sharp increase in publications about the new nation. Authors are fascinated and not a little surprised that the “international basketcase” of 1971 has survived a vast array...

...Arjun Guneratne An Endangered History: Indigeneity, Religion, and Politics on the Borders of India, Burma, and Bangladesh . By Angma Dey Jhala . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2019 . pp. lxxii, 254. ISBN: 9780199493081 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

... that is more political and cultural, namely, “fake news” and state and nonstate actors who wield it to undermine the public's trust in traditional media or news sources. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018  2018 Awami League Bangladesh Bangladesh Nationalist Party censorship...

...Dina Siddiqi Boundaries Undermined signals the arrival of a new generation of books on Bangladesh that challenge and transcend the nationalist exceptionalism and conventional subject matter of much existing scholarship. It is a beautifully written book that makes significant theoretical...

... in Bangladesh shape the practices and ideologies of NGOs such as Technological Innovation for Empowerment (TIE). Huang highlights the contested views of NGO urban elites and the more local organizations and workers by contrasting Adnan—the head of TIE—with Rohan, an iAgent leader. While for the former...

...Peter J. Bertocci Bangladesh: Politics, Economy and Civil Society . By David Lewis . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2011 . xiii, 233 pp. $99.00 (cloth); $29.99 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 This book provides a good introduction...

...Elora Halim Chowdhury The Spectral Wound: Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971 . By Nayanika Mookherjee . Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press , 2015 . 352 pp. ISBN: 9780822359494 (cloth, also available in paper). Copyright ©...

...Philip Oldenburg Bangladesh . By B.L.C. Johnson . London : Heinemann Educational Books ; New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1975 . 104 pp. Tables, Photographs, Figures, Bibliographical Note, Indexes. $13.50 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 BOOK REVIEWS 529...

.... 2 For a detailed discussion of the Bangladesh revolution of 1971, see Maniruzzaman T. , “Radical Politics and the Emergence of Bangladesh” in Brass P. R. and Franda M. F. (eds.), Radical Politics in South Asia ( Cambridge : The MIT Press , 1973 ), pp. 223 – 277...

...Jill Forshee Mantels of Merit: Chin Textiles from Myanmar, India, and Bangladesh . By David W. Fraser and Barbara G. Fraser . Bangkok : River Books , 2005 . 288 pp. $60.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008 This handsome, richly...

...Antoinette E. DeNapoli Contradictory Lives: Baul Women in India and Bangladesh . By Lisa I. Knight . Oxford; New York : Oxford University Press , 2011 . vii, 217 pp. $ 74.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 Lisa Knight's engaging...

...C. Christine Fair This book competently addresses serious empirical lacunae in the terrorism and security literatures, helps explain the rise of Islamism in a critical yet poorly understood South Asian country, and contributes to much-needed scholarship on contemporary Bangladesh. It should...

...Ritu Menon Freedom Unfinished: Fundamentalism and Popular Resistance in Bangladesh Today . By Jeremy Seabrook . London and New York : Zed Books ; Dhaka: Proshika, 2001 . xi , 243 pp. $25.00/£14.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH...

...Salim Rashid Civil Society by Design: Donors, NGOs, and the Intermestic Development Circle in Bangladesh . By Kendall W. Stiles . Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers , 2002 . xii, 178 pp. $62.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Rachel Fell McDermott A History of Bangladesh . By Willem van Schendel . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2009 . xxvi, 347 pp. $76.00 (cloth); $26.99 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 Students and scholars of Bangladesh have been...

...Peter J. Bertocci Bangladesh: The First Decade . By Marcus Franda . New Delhi , Madras : South Asian Publishers in association with Universities Field Staff International, Hanover, N.H. , 1982 . x, 335 pp. Tables, Name Index, Subject Index. N.p. 182 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...? The author concludes that the ethos of the writers scarcely differs from that of their society—it is an ethos that might well have precipitated the 1971 crisis. VOL. XLI1I, No. 1 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES NOVEMBER 1983 Pakistani Urdu Creative Writing on National Disintegration: The Case of Bangladesh MUHAMMAD...