Famine
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Includes a Bangladesh-centered account of the 1974 famine, its causes, mortality debates, and social effects.
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Famine, Emergency, and State Crisis
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Bangladesh famine
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A concise overview of the 1974 famine and the policy failures that shaped its severity.
Special Powers Act, 1974
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A reference on the preventive detention law that marked a major expansion of coercive state authority in 1974.
Bangladesh since independence
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A concise overview of Bangladesh's immediate post-1971 political transition, including Mujib's return and the early constitutional order.