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It is a scholarly analysis of political and religious history of Bangladesh from 1952 to 2004. The book may be found useful by researchers, archivists and readers having interest in South Asia.
Abanti Adhikari, the Head of the Department of History, Narasinha Dutta College, Howrah, is a Project Fellow, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata. She has to her credit several articles published in English and Bengali on the history of Bangladesh.
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Muslim Community in Bangladesh
3. Historiography on the Partition of Bengal
4. Islam and Islamic Fundamentalism in Bangladesh
5. 7-71: Birth of a Nation
6. The War of Independence (1971)
7. Politics and Religion in Bangladesh, 1972-75
8. Religious Currents and Cross-Currents, 1975-90
9. Minority Sects in Bangladesh
10. March Towards Islamization, 1991-2004
Select Bibliography
Index