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Bangladesh

(see also Pakistan, India: Bengal & Microcredit)


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Basics

Björn Kumm's Note.

CIA World Factbook. Includes map.

Library of Congress Country Profile.

New Internationalist Profile.

UN Development Program, Human Development Indicators.

World Guide.

World Guide (Montevideo).

On the Web: Articles

Dispatch from London. Sandip Roy, Pacific News Service [AlterNet] (7/7/05). Bangladeshi Muslims in London following terrorist bombings.

On the Web: Specialized Sites

Countrywatch: Bangladesh.

Human Rights Watch: Bangladesh.

WWW Virtual Library.

In the Library: Articles

A Correspondent. "Bangladesh: the internationalization of counter-revolution," Monthly Review 26,8 (1/75):26-45.

Khan, Azizur Rahman. "Poverty & inequality in rural Bangladesh," in K. Griffin & A.R. Khan (eds.) Poverty & Landlessness in Rural Asia (Geneva: ILO, 1977).

Muhith, A.A.A. "Political & administrative roles in East Pakistan's districts," Pacific Affairs 40,3&4 (1967-8).

Nietschmann, Bernard. "Indonesia & Bangladesh: economic development by invasion of indigenous nations," Cultural Survival Quarterly 10,2 (1986):1-12.

In the Library: Non-Fiction Books

Ahmed, A.F. Salahuddin. Bengali Nationalism & the Emergence of Bangladesh: An Introductory Outline (Dhaka: International Center for Bengal Studies, 1994).

Ahmed, Sufia. Muslim Community in Bengal, 1884-1912 (Dacca: S. Ahmed, 1974).

Begum, Jahanara. The Last Decade of Undivided Bengal: Parties, Politics & Personalities (Calcutta: Minerva, 1994).

Bose, Sugata & Ayesha Jalal. Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy (NY: Routledge, 1998).

Butalia, Urvashi. The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India (Durham NC: Duke U., 2000). Oral history of the deeply traumatic separation from Pakistan & Bangladesh in the late 1940's.

Chakrabarti, Asim Pada. Muslim Identity & Community Consciousness: Bengal Legislative Politics, 1912-1936 (Calcutta: Minerva, 1993).

De, Dhurjati Prasad. Bengal Muslims in Search of Social Identity, 1905-1947 (Dhaka: University, 1998).

De, Soumitra. Nationalism & Separatism in Bengal: A Study of India's Partition (New Delhi: Har-Anand, 1992).

Engels, Dagmar. Beyond Purdah? Women in Bengal, 1890-1939 (NY: Oxford, 1996).

Gopal, Sarvepalli. The Permanent Settlement in Bengal & its Results (London: Allen & Unwin, 1949).

Gordon, Leonard A. Bengal: The Nationalist Movement, 1876-1940 (NY: Columbia, 1974).

Gough, Kathleen & Hari P. Sharma (eds.) Imperialism & Revolution in South Asia (NY: Monthly Review, 1973).

Hartman, Betsy & James Boyce. A Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village (Boston, 1983).

Harun-or-Rashid. The Foreshadowing of Bangladesh: Bengal Muslim League & Muslim Politics, 1936-1947 (Dhaka: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, 1987).

Heehs, Peter. The Bomb in Bengal: The Rise of Revolutionary Terrorism in India, 1900-1910 (NY: Oxford, 1993).

Hitchens, Christopher. The Trial of Henry Kissinger (NY: Verso, 2001), esp. chap. 4.

Kirkpatrick, Joanna. Transports of Delight (Bloomington: Indiana U., 2003) [CD-ROM].

Lahiri, Pradip Kumar. Bengali Muslim Thought, 1818-1947: Its Liberal & Rational Trends (Calcutta: K.P. Bagchi, 1991).

Laushey, David M. Bengal Terrorism & the Marxist Left: Aspects of Regional Nationalism in India, 1905-1942 (Calcutta: Firma K.L. Mukhopadhyay, 1975).

Lifschultz, Lawrence. Bangladesh: The Unfinished Revolution (London: Zed, 1979).

Lipski, Alexander (ed.) Bengal: East & West (East Lansing: Michigan State U, 1970).

Mandal, Tirtha. The Women Revolutionaries of Bengal, 1905-1939 (Calcutta: Minerva 1991).

Mannan, Mohammad Siraj. The Muslim Political Parties of Bengal, 1936-1947: A Study of their Activities & Struggle for Freedom (Dhaka: Islamic Foundation of Bangladesh, 1987).

Mascarenhas, Anthony. The Rape of Bangla Desh (Delhi: Vikas, 1971).

Mey, Wolfgang (ed.) Genocide in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh (IWGIA Doc. 51; Copenhagen, 1984). Encroachment on tribal lands near Burmese border.

Momen, Humaira. Muslim Politics in Bengal: A Study of the Krishak Praja Party & the Elections of 1937 (Dacca: Sunny House, 1972).

Nasrin, Taslima [Tasalina Nasarina]. Meyebela: My Bengali Girlhood (South Royalton VT: Steerforth, 2002).

Osmany, Shireen Hasan. Bangladeshi Nationalism: History of Dialectics & Dimensions (Dhaka: University Press, 1992).

Payne, Robert. Massacre: The Tragedy at Bangla Desh & the Phenomenon of Mass Slaughter Throughout History (NY, 1973).

Rahman, Hossainur. Hindu-Muslim Relations in Bengal, 1905-1947: A Study in Cultural Confrontation (Bombay: Nachiketa, 1974).

Ray, Asok Kumar. Party of Firebrand Revolutionaries: The Dacca Anushilan Samiti, 1906-1918 (Calcutta: Minerva, 1999).

Ray, Rajat Kanta. Social Conflict & Political Unrest in Bengal, 1875-1927 (Delhi: Oxford, 1984).

Tepper, Elliot L. & Glen A. Hayes (eds.) Bengal & Bangladesh: Politics & Culture of the Golden Delta (East Lansing MI: Michigan State U, 1990).

Zaidi, S.M. Hafeez. The Village Culture in Transition: A Study of East Pakistan Rural Society (Honolulu: U. Hawai'i, 1968).

Zaman, Niaz. A Divided Legacy: Partition in Selected Novels of India, Pakistan & Bangladesh (Dhaka: University Press, 1999).

In the Library: Fiction

Ahameda, Humayuna. 1971: a Novel (Dhaka: Mowla Bros., 1993).

Chowdhury, Omar. Prelude to Bangladesh (Bogra: Chaudhury, 1979).

Gardner, Katy. Songs at the River's Edge: Stories from a Bangla Deshi Village (Chicago: Pluto, 1997).

Khan, Sorayya. Noor: A Novel (Islamabad: Alhamra, 2003). A daughter explores father's past in 1971 war against Bangladesh.

Nasrin, Taslima [Tasalina Nasarina]. Shame: A Novel (Amherst NY: Prometheus, 1997).

Pasa, Anoyara. Rifles, Bread, & Women (Dacca: Bangla Academy, 1976).

Payne, Robert. The Tortured & the Damned (NY: Horizon, 1977).

Hossein, Farida & Razia Khan. Short Stories from Bangladesh (Dhaka: Ankur Prakashani, 1997).

In the Library: For Young Readers

Warner, Rachel. Nazrul's Kite: A Story Set in Bangladesh (London: A&C Black, 1990).

In the Library: Poetry

Nasrin, Taslima [Tasalina Nasarina]. Light Up at Midnight: Selected Poems (trans. Carolyne Wright; Dhaka: Biddyaprakash, 1992).

__________. The Game in Reverse: Poems (trans. Carolyne Wright; NY: George Braziller, 1995).

__________. 100 Poems of Taslima Nasrin (Dhaka: Ananya, 1997).

In the Library: Drama

In the Library: Photography

CD & Audio

Film & Video

"From Docklands to Dhaka" [2000], dir. Steve Bradshaw, 24m. From Bullfrog Films. How globalization affects ordinary people's lives in Bangladesh.

"Matir Moina (The Clay Bird)" [2002], dir. Tareque Masud, 89m.

"The Need to Know" [1997], by Les Productions Point de Mire, 47m. From Films for the Humanities & Sciences.

"Shackled Women" [1999], dir. Keely Purdue, 41m. From Films for the Humanities & Sciences.





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