Subho Basu

Global Sixties in Bangladesh: Praetorian Guards and Subaltern Resistance

Like bunches of blood-red Oleander, Like flaming clouds at sunset Asad’s shirt flutters In the gusty wind, in the limitless blue.

2y ago

From movement to a nation

On March 30, 1971, a disheveled Tajuddin Ahmed, the general secretary of Awami League, and his associate Barrister Amir-ul Islam, crossed the border of Pakistani occupied Bangladesh into India.

3y ago

The birth of Bangladesh and nationality question in South Asia

26 March 1971 is a significant date in South Asian subcontinent not simply because Bengali majority of Pakistan decided to assert a right to secede in the face of brutal military crackdown but also because the very fundamental framework of the parameter of nation formation in South Asian subcontinent had been altered.

3y ago
January 24, 2022
January 24, 2022

Global Sixties in Bangladesh: Praetorian Guards and Subaltern Resistance

Like bunches of blood-red Oleander, Like flaming clouds at sunset Asad’s shirt flutters In the gusty wind, in the limitless blue.

April 17, 2021
April 17, 2021

From movement to a nation

On March 30, 1971, a disheveled Tajuddin Ahmed, the general secretary of Awami League, and his associate Barrister Amir-ul Islam, crossed the border of Pakistani occupied Bangladesh into India.

March 22, 2021
March 22, 2021

The birth of Bangladesh and nationality question in South Asia

26 March 1971 is a significant date in South Asian subcontinent not simply because Bengali majority of Pakistan decided to assert a right to secede in the face of brutal military crackdown but also because the very fundamental framework of the parameter of nation formation in South Asian subcontinent had been altered.

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