What Was Once East Pakistan

What Was Once East Pakistan
Author: Syed Shahid Husain
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2022-05-19
Genre: Bangladesh
ISBN: 9780190707293

This book relates the personal experiences of the author and looks at East Pakistan from his perspective. The author served in East Pakistan for two years during the crucial period of 1969 to 1971. The book also includes an account of a cyclone that hit East Pakistan in 1970. He has analysed the roles of the three major players in the game viz. General Yahya Khan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and Mujibur Rehman and the role of the US, which has been involved in Pakistanright from the time of independence in 1947.

A History of Bangladesh

A History of Bangladesh
Author: Willem van Schendel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2020-07-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108620337

Bangladesh did not exist as an independent state until 1971. Willem van Schendel's state-of-the-art history navigates the extraordinary twists and turns that created modern Bangladesh through ecological disaster, colonialism, partition, a war of independence and cultural renewal. In this revised and updated edition, Van Schendel offers a fascinating and highly readable account of life in Bangladesh over the last two millennia. Based on the latest academic research and covering the numerous historical developments of the 2010s, he provides an eloquent introduction to a fascinating country and its resilient and inventive people. A perfect survey for travellers, expats, students and scholars alike.

An Environmental History of India

An Environmental History of India
Author: Michael H. Fisher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2018-10-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107111625

This longue durée survey of the Indian subcontinent's environmental history reveals the complex interactions among its people and the natural world.

Partition as Border-Making

Partition as Border-Making
Author: Sayeed Ferdous
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2021-09-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000458954

This book critically analyzes the Partition experiences from East Bengal in 1947 and its prolonged aftermath leading to the creation of Bangladesh in 1971. It looks at how newly emerged borderlands at the time of Partition affected lives and triggered prolonged consequences for the people living in East Bengal/Bangladesh. The author brings to the fore unheard voices and unexplored narratives, especially those relating the experience of different groups of Muslims in the midst of the falling apart of the unified Muslim identity. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic research and archival resources, the volume analyzes various themes such as partition literature, local narratives of border-making, smuggling, border violence, refugees, identity conflicts, border crossing, and experiences of the Bihari Muslims and the Hindus of East Pakistan, among others. A unique study in border-making, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of history, South Asian history, Partition studies, oral history, anthropology, political history, refugee studies, minority studies, political science, and borderland studies.

The Betrayal of East Pakistan

The Betrayal of East Pakistan
Author: A. A. K. Niazi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000-02-24
Genre: Bangladesh
ISBN: 9780195792751

In December 1971, one of Pakistan's most decorated offficers, Lt.-Gen. A.A.K. Niazi, laid down arms before the invading Indian army, leading to the dismemberment of Pakistan. Was `Tiger' Niazi a coward, a hero, or the victim of an unjust fate? In this candid account General Niazi breaks 26 years of silence and volunteers his own version of the events of that fateful year.

The Separation of East Pakistan

The Separation of East Pakistan
Author: Hasan Zaheer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 556
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN:

To understand the separation of East Pakistan in 1971, it is necessary to put the events of that year in the proper perspective of the unstable relationship between East and West Pakistan from 1947 onwards. Part I of this scholarly study examines the genesis of the federation of East and West Pakistan as a single State, and analyses the crises which marked relations between its two Wings from 15 August 1947 to the fatal decision to resort to army action on 25 March 1971 as the final solution to Bengali Muslim nationalism. Part II analyses the disastrous consequences of the 25 March army action, leading to the second Indo-Pakistan war, and the emergence of the independent state of Bangladesh. Relying on primary sources - personal experience, unpublished material, and conversations and interviews with those directly involved in the 1971 crisis - Zaheer has given a dispassionate and thoroughly-documented account of events on the national and international fronts, culminating in the surrender of the army in East Pakistan on 16 December 1971.

1971

1971
Author: Srinath Raghavan
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2013-11-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674731298

The war of 1971 that created Bangladesh was the most significant geopolitical event in the Indian subcontinent since partition in 1947. It tilted the balance of power between India and Pakistan steeply in favor of India. Srinath Raghavan contends that the crisis and its cast of characters can be understood only in a wider international context.

Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh

Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh
Author: Yasmin Saikia
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2011-08-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822350386

Bangladeshi women recall the sexualized violence of the war of 1971, fought between India and what was then East and West Pakistan.

Pakistan's Drift into Extremism

Pakistan's Drift into Extremism
Author: Hassan Abbas
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2015-03-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317463285

This book examines the rise of religious extremism in Pakistan, particularly since 1947, and analyzes its connections to the Pakistani army's corporate interests and U.S.-Pakistan relations. It includes profiles of leading Pakistani militant groups with details of their origins, development, and capabilities. The author begins with an historical overview of the introduction of Islam to the Indian sub-continent in 712 AD, and brings the story up to the present by describing President Musharraf's handling of the war on terror. He provides a detailed account of the political developments in Pakistan since 1947 with a focus on the influence of religious and military forces. He also discusses regional politics, Pakistan's attempt to gain nuclear power status, and U.S.-Pakistan relations, and offers predictions for Pakistan's domestic and regional prospects.

War and Secession

War and Secession
Author: Richard Sisson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2023-04-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520912039

A decade after the 1971 wars in South Asia, the principal decisionmakers were still uncertain why wars so clearly unwanted had occurred. The authors reconstruct the complex decisionmaking process attending the break-up of Pakistan and the subsequent war between India and Pakistan. Much of their data derive from interviews conducted with principal players in each of the countries immediately involved-Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh-including Indira Gandhi and leaders of the Awami League in Bangladesh. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990. A decade after the 1971 wars in South Asia, the principal decisionmakers were still uncertain why wars so clearly unwanted had occurred. The authors reconstruct the complex decisionmaking process attending the break-up of Pakistan and the subsequent war b