Bangladesh; Author: Baxter, Craig (Professor of Politics and History, Juniata College, USA); Hardback; Book

Author: Baxter, Craig (Professor of Politics and History, Juniata College, USA)
Reissue; Hardback; Book; Tables, Notes, Bibliography, Index
192 pages
Published: March 1997
The Perseus Books Group
ISBN: 0813328543
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In 1996, Bangladesh celebrated its 25th anniversary. When the country became independent from Pakistan in 1971, it proclaimed itself a parliamentary democracy with four goalsdemocracy, secularism, socialism, and nationalism. This comprehensive introduction to Bangladesh's history, polity, economy, and society reassesses its successes and failures in reaching these goals after a quarter century of nationhood. Part of the series Nations of the Modern World: Asia. Tables, notes, bibliography, index.A study of the development of national identity in Bangladesh, first as part of India and then of Pakistan, and the slow evolution toward statehood. Also explored are the formative periods of Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim and British government that preceded Pakistani rule and subsequent independence.