Intimation of Revolution

ISBN-13: 9781009329873 / Twarda / 2023 / 305 str.

Montreal) Basu Subho (McGill University

Opis

Studies the rise of Bengali nationalism in East Pakistan in the 1950s and 60s.

Recenzje

'Basu examines an understudied revolution that emerged from the mainly agrarian society of the lower Gangetic delta of East Pakistan in the sixties, presenting an innovative exploration of a remarkable period of South Asian history in a global context. For those familiar with twentieth-century Pakistan, Basu's work provides a foundation-shifting reading of the period. It rightfully highlights the critical role played by subaltern East Pakistani actors in their own liberation. The changing class composition of East Pakistani society at the time is also given a compelling prominence in the consideration of the links between the left, national populism and the eruption of military dictatorship. Basu's book is a crucial contribution making much-needed inroads into disrupting the dominance of the West in discussions of the sixties as a defining cultural and political epoch.' Crispin Bates, University of Edinburgh

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Nationality Question: Territoriality, Birth of East Pakistan and New Politics of Resistance; 2. Global Politics and Local Alignment: Cold War Bureaucratic -Military Alliance and Popular Resistance; 3. Language, Culture and the Global Sixties in East Pakistan; 4. Praetorian Guards, Capitalist Modernization and Early Global Sixties: Global Cold War Empire and the Colonization of East Pakistan; 5. For Whom the Bell Tolls: Popular Resistance and the Beginning of Global Sixties in Pakistan; 6. Global Sixties and the Coming of Revolution; Conclusion; Bibliography.