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❦Rounaq Jahan
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Bangladesh Politics: Problems and Issues
research-articles-and-papers · Scholarly Articles and Papers
Important political science reading on institutional crisis, military rule, and democratic transition in post-independence Bangladesh.
Pakistan: Failure in National Integration
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A foundational political science work on state formation crisis and East-West Pakistan inequality.
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Mass Uprising
The 1990 Mass Uprising was the culmination of years of resistance to military-backed authoritarian rule in Bangladesh. Student activism, the martyrdom of Nur Hossain in 1987, opposition-alliance coordination, and professional-civic mobilization converged in a final wave of pressure that forced Hussain Muhammad Ershad to resign and opened the path to the Shahabuddin-led transition and the 1991 restoration of parliamentary democracy.
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Liberation War
The Liberation War of 1971 grew out of the denied majority verdict of the 1970 election, the March non-cooperation movement, and the Pakistan Army's 25 March crackdown. What followed was not a single battlefield episode but a combined political, military, and humanitarian rupture: a provisional government, sector-based armed resistance, mass displacement into India, and finally the defeat of Pakistani forces in December and the birth of Bangladesh.