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The Political and Economic Context Underlying the Emergence of Bangladesh

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Looking from afar one might not easily understand why Pakistan, a nation-state carved out of undivided India in August 1947 following a period of struggle and marked by the bloodbath of partition, did not even last for 25 years, a short lifespan for a contemporary nation. Many readers today—separated by a distance of fifty years—may have the same question in mind. What happened? Why did Pakistan fail to survive as a nation-state? If it had to meet such a sudden end, what was the rationale for forming Pakistan in the first place?

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  1. Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Rehman Sobhan

  2. Department of Social Sciences, Zayed University, Khalifa City, UAE

    Habibul Khondker

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  1. Department of Social Sciences, Zayed University, Khalifa City, United Arab Emirates

    Habibul Khondker

  2. School of Business and Law, Central Queensland University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    Olav Muurlink

  3. Department of History and Philosophy, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

    Asif Bin Ali

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Sobhan, R., Khondker, H. (2022). The Political and Economic Context Underlying the Emergence of Bangladesh. In: Khondker, H., Muurlink, O., Bin Ali, A. (eds) The Emergence of Bangladesh. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5521-0_2

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