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020 _a9781108473699
_q(hardback)
020 _z9781108684644
_q(ebook)
035 _a(BD-RjUL)86289
040 _aDLC
_beng
_erda
_cDLC
_dBD-RjUL
041 _aeng
082 0 0 _223
_a954.92
_bSCH 2020
100 1 _aSchendel, Willem van,
_eauthor.
_917953
245 1 2 _aA history of Bangladesh /
_cWillem van Schendel, University of Amsterdam.
250 _aSecond edition.
263 _a2007
264 1 _aCambridge, United Kingdom ;
_aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2020.
300 _a427 pages
_bIllustrations ;
_c23 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _a"This is a book about the amazing twists and turns that have produced contemporary Bangladeshi society. It is intended for general readers and for students who are beginning to study the subject. Those who are familiar with the story will find my account highly selective. My aim has been to present an overview and to help readers get a sense of how Bangladesh came to be what it is today. How to write a history of Bangladesh? At first glance, the country does not seem to have much of a history. In 1930 not even the boldest visionary could have imagined it, and by 1950 it was merely a gleam in the eyes of a few activists. Only in the 1970s did Bangladesh emerge as a state and a nation. There was nothing preordained about this emergence - in fact, it took most people by surprise. Even so, you cannot make sense of contemporary Bangladesh unless you understand its history long before those last few decades. How have long-term processes shaped the society that we know as Bangladesh today? It is a complicated and spectacular tale even if you follow only a few main threads, as I have done. I have greatly compressed the story. To give you an idea: each page of this book stands for about a million people who have historically lived in what is now Bangladesh. This is, by any standard, a huge society folded into a small area. More people live here than in Russia or Japan. Bangladesh is the eighth most populous country on earth."--
651 0 _aBangladesh
_xHistory.
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