M Rashiduzzaman is a retired academic who occasionally writes on Bangladesh and its political history. The narrative draws from his ‘Identity of a Muslim family in colonial Bengal: Between memories and history’ (Peter Lang, NYC, 2021) and the forthcoming ‘Parties and Politics in East Pakistan 1947–71: the political inheritances of Bangladesh’, (publication expected later in 2024).
A mass meeting of Muslims held at Dhaka on September 4, 1906 in favour of.......
Bangladesh history has become a partisan battleground of narratives and counter-narratives, but this paper is.......
When I published “The Awami League in the Political Development of Pakistan,” in Asian Survey,.......
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the country’s largest opposition party, has recently overhauled its important.......
Monday, August 5, 2024, was a history-tossing day for Bangladesh, which made global headlines! The.......
In his first speech as the as the Chief Adviser of the new Interim Government.......
Besieged by the largest protest in the country’s history and the unbending public fury against.......
The sweeping protests in July-August 2024 that ousted Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s (Hasina).......
An uptick of an old fault line—-the protracted Bangladeshi discourse over history has recently stepped.......
Configurations of political parties in Bangladesh now carry multiple drifts—they are still inchoate after a.......
Since Bangladesh’s interim regime removed the portraits of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (Mujib, Bangabandhu/father of the.......
Ever since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina (Hasina) precipitously fell from power on August 5, 2024,.......
Nobel Laureate Dr. Mohammad Yunus’(Yunus) interim regime took over soon after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.......
Bangladeshi parties, still gutsy, encounter a heightened existential fear––the disquiet of a deep institutional crisis.......