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Bangladesh: Promise and Performance
Rounaq Jahan
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Description for Bangladesh: Promise and Performance
Hardcover. Provides an account of Bangladesh's political system, economic performance, and social ambiguities arising out of its people's multiple identities. Editor(s): Jahan, Rounaq. Num Pages: 420 pages, tables, figures, chronology, map, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FKB; 1FM; GTB; GTF; HBJF; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 33. Weight in Grams: 625.
The movement for Bangladesh was carried forward in the name of creating Sonar Bangla (Golden Bengal). Implicit in the idea of Sonar Bangla was the vision of a society economically prosperous, free of exploitation, democratically governed, tolerant of pluralism and respectful of people's rights. This study, a collection of articles by some of the best known scholars on Bangladesh, is an attempt to analyze how the country has performed in the three decades since her independence. The articles illuminate the critical debates that have defined Bangladesh's politics and policies since her birth: the identity question; the issue of democratization ... Read more
The movement for Bangladesh was carried forward in the name of creating Sonar Bangla (Golden Bengal). Implicit in the idea of Sonar Bangla was the vision of a society economically prosperous, free of exploitation, democratically governed, tolerant of pluralism and respectful of people's rights. This study, a collection of articles by some of the best known scholars on Bangladesh, is an attempt to analyze how the country has performed in the three decades since her independence. The articles illuminate the critical debates that have defined Bangladesh's politics and policies since her birth: the identity question; the issue of democratization ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Zed Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
420
Condition
New
Number of Pages
420
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781856498258
SKU
V9781856498258
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99-5
About Rounaq Jahan
Rounaq Jahan is a senior research scholar and adjunct professor of international affairs at Columbia University. She had been Professor of Political Science, Dhaka University; Coordinator, Women in Development Programme, UN Asia-Pacific Development Centre, Kualalumpur Malaysia, and Head, Rural Women's Programme, ILO, Geneva Switzerland. Her publications include Pakistan: Failure in National Integration, New York; Columbia University Press, 1972; Women and ... Read more
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