TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schendel, Willem van
TI  - A history of Bangladesh
SN  - 9780521679749
SN  - 200928468
U1  - 954.92 SCH 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge Univeristy Press
KW  - Bangla Desh
KW  - Bangladesh - History
KW  - Maatschappij
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-333) and index. Introduction; Part I. The Long View: 1. A land of water and silt; 2. Jungle, fields, cities and states; 3. A region of multiple frontiers; 4. The Delta as a crossroads; Part II. Colonial Encounters; 5. From the Mughal Empire to the British Empire; 6. The British impact; 7. A closing agrarian frontier; 8. Colonial conflicts; 9. Towards partition; 10. Partition; Part III. Becoming East Pakistan: 11. The Pakistan experiment; 12. Pakistan falls apart; 13. East Pakistani livelihoods; 14. The roots of aid dependence; 15. A new elite and cultural renewal; Part IV. War and the Birth of Bangladesh: 16. Armed conflict; 17. A state is born; 18. Imagining a new society; Part V. Independent Bangladesh: 19. Creating a political system; 20. Transnational linkages; 21. Bursting at the seams; 22. A national culture?; Conclusion
ER  -