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British Bengal to Bangladesh / Muhammad Abdul, Baaquie.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Dhaka : Holiday Publications, c2012Description: 304 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9789843355867
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.0954 22
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1 Brahma and Manu: Of Mountains and Rivers, Gods and Men -- 1.1 The Land -- 1.2 The People -- 1.3 Society Crystallises -- 1.4 The Epic Ages -- 1.5 The New Religions -- 1.6 The First Empire -- 1.7 The Hindu Empires -- 1.8 Concluding Remarks -- 2 Hinduism: The Manifold of Man and God -- 2.1 An Unrevealed Truth -- 2.2 Cosmologies East and West -- 2.3 The Three Paths to God -- 2.4 Lineage and Caste -- 2.5 The Thousands of Separate Castes in India -- 2.6 Pollution and the Hierarchy of Caste -- 2.7 Maya -- 2.8 Caste and Hinduism in the Contemporary Era -- 2.9 Concluding Remarks -- 3 Islam: Submission to the One True God -- 3.1 The Prophet -- 3.2 The Word of Allah -- 3.3 Muslim Law: The Sharia -- 3.4 The Spreading Fire -- 3.5 The Submission of India -- 3.6 Persecution and Resistance -- 3.7 Vijayanagar -- 3.8 Second Foundation: The Mogul Empire -- 3.9 Imperial Government under Akbar -- 3.10 The Empire in Extremis and Decline -- 3.11 The Legacy of Islam -- 3.12 Hindu-Muslim Relations -- PART II: THE BRITISH RAJ -- 4 The Usurpers: The Life and Death of John Company -- 4.1 Preface: Changing Britain -- 4.2 European Expansion -- 4.3 The East India Company -- 4.4 The Pattern of Trade and its Growth -- 4.5 Rivalry with the French -- 4.6 The Acquisition of Bengal -- 4.7 The Struggle to Assert Control -- 4.8 Trusteeship and Reform -- 4.9 The Mutiny and Divorce -- 5 A New Geography: A New Economy -- 5.1 The Railroading of Empire -- 5.2 Irrigation -- 5.3 The Land of the Five Rivers -- 5.4 International Trade in the 19" Century and the Balance -- of Payments -- 5.5 The New Geography -- 5.6 The Language of Empire -- 5.7 A Necessary Understatement -- 5.8 Concluding Remarks -- 6 The New Nationalisms and the Politics of Reaction -- 6.1 Contesting Dynamics -- 6.2 The Structure of Government in British India and the -- Problem of an Evolutionary Transfer of Power -- 6.3 The Process of Constitutional Concession -- 6.4 Gandhi and the Nationalist Response -- 6.5 The Two Nations -- PART HI: THE SUCCESSOR STATES -- 7 Divide and Quit -- 7.1 Pride and Prejudice: The Search for Unity in Western -- Europe -- 7.2 Pride and Prejudice: Recrimination and Divorce in -- South Asia -- 7.3 Territorial Options -- 7.4 The Decree Nisi -- 7.5 Concluding Remarks -- 8 New Lines on the Map -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Radcliffe's New Map -- 8.3 The Second Partition of Bengal -- 8.4 The Princely States -- 8.4.1 Junagadh -- 8.4.2 Hyderabad -- 8.4.3 Jamnu and Kashmir -- 8.5 The Human Flotsam -- 8.6 The Divided Inheritance -- 8.7 Concluding Remarks -- 9 From Two to Three: The Birth of Bangladesh -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Unequal Development in Pakistan -- 9.3 Language and Representation -- 9.4 The Military Cost of Pakistan -- 9.5 The South Asian Roots of Bangladesh -- 9.6 Concluding Remarks -- 10 Raj and Swaraj: Regionalism and Integration in the -- Successor States -- .10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 The Integration of the Princely States -- 10.2.1 India -- 10.2.2 Pakistan -- 10.3 Territorial Redefinition in India and the Emergence of -- Linguistic States -- 10.4 The Centre-Province Balance and Pakistan's Search for -- a Constitution -- 10.5 Regionalism post 1972 in the Residual Pakistan -- 10.6 Concluding Remarks -- 11 The Power Upstream -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Hydro-politics in the Indus Basin -- 11.3 Sharing the Ganges-Brahmaputra Basin -- 11.3.1 Farakka Barrage -- 11.3.2 Floods in Bangladesh -- 11.4 Concluding Remarks -- 12 The Greater Game -- 12.1 Geopolitics -- 12.2 Antagonists and Protagonists since 1947: The Actors -- 12.2.1 The Soviet Union/Russia -- 12.2.2 The USA -- 12.2.3 China, Tibet and the Himalayan War -- 12.2.4 Pakistan and the Afghan War -- 12.2.5 Kashmir -- 12.2.6 Bangladesh -- 12.2.7 India -- 12.2.8 SAARC (The South Asian Associationfor -- Regional Cooperation) -- 12.3 The Politics of Triangles -- 12.4 Concluding Remarks -- PART IV: CONCLUSIONS -- 13 States and Region in South Asia -- 13.1 Introduction: Nature Proposes -- 13.2 Humankind Disposes -- 13.3 States of Development -- 13.4 Nature, Culture and Civilisation -- 13.5 The Politics of Reaction -- References and Bibliography -- Appendix -- Index.
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Books Books Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) General Stacks 327.0954 B1117b 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 01 Available 024097
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1 Brahma and Manu: Of Mountains and Rivers, Gods and Men -- 1.1 The Land -- 1.2 The People -- 1.3 Society Crystallises -- 1.4 The Epic Ages -- 1.5 The New Religions -- 1.6 The First Empire -- 1.7 The Hindu Empires -- 1.8 Concluding Remarks -- 2 Hinduism: The Manifold of Man and God -- 2.1 An Unrevealed Truth -- 2.2 Cosmologies East and West -- 2.3 The Three Paths to God -- 2.4 Lineage and Caste -- 2.5 The Thousands of Separate Castes in India -- 2.6 Pollution and the Hierarchy of Caste -- 2.7 Maya -- 2.8 Caste and Hinduism in the Contemporary Era -- 2.9 Concluding Remarks -- 3 Islam: Submission to the One True God -- 3.1 The Prophet -- 3.2 The Word of Allah -- 3.3 Muslim Law: The Sharia -- 3.4 The Spreading Fire -- 3.5 The Submission of India -- 3.6 Persecution and Resistance -- 3.7 Vijayanagar -- 3.8 Second Foundation: The Mogul Empire -- 3.9 Imperial Government under Akbar -- 3.10 The Empire in Extremis and Decline -- 3.11 The Legacy of Islam -- 3.12 Hindu-Muslim Relations -- PART II: THE BRITISH RAJ -- 4 The Usurpers: The Life and Death of John Company -- 4.1 Preface: Changing Britain -- 4.2 European Expansion -- 4.3 The East India Company -- 4.4 The Pattern of Trade and its Growth -- 4.5 Rivalry with the French -- 4.6 The Acquisition of Bengal -- 4.7 The Struggle to Assert Control -- 4.8 Trusteeship and Reform -- 4.9 The Mutiny and Divorce -- 5 A New Geography: A New Economy -- 5.1 The Railroading of Empire -- 5.2 Irrigation -- 5.3 The Land of the Five Rivers -- 5.4 International Trade in the 19" Century and the Balance -- of Payments -- 5.5 The New Geography -- 5.6 The Language of Empire -- 5.7 A Necessary Understatement -- 5.8 Concluding Remarks -- 6 The New Nationalisms and the Politics of Reaction -- 6.1 Contesting Dynamics -- 6.2 The Structure of Government in British India and the -- Problem of an Evolutionary Transfer of Power -- 6.3 The Process of Constitutional Concession -- 6.4 Gandhi and the Nationalist Response -- 6.5 The Two Nations -- PART HI: THE SUCCESSOR STATES -- 7 Divide and Quit -- 7.1 Pride and Prejudice: The Search for Unity in Western -- Europe -- 7.2 Pride and Prejudice: Recrimination and Divorce in -- South Asia -- 7.3 Territorial Options -- 7.4 The Decree Nisi -- 7.5 Concluding Remarks -- 8 New Lines on the Map -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Radcliffe's New Map -- 8.3 The Second Partition of Bengal -- 8.4 The Princely States -- 8.4.1 Junagadh -- 8.4.2 Hyderabad -- 8.4.3 Jamnu and Kashmir -- 8.5 The Human Flotsam -- 8.6 The Divided Inheritance -- 8.7 Concluding Remarks -- 9 From Two to Three: The Birth of Bangladesh -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Unequal Development in Pakistan -- 9.3 Language and Representation -- 9.4 The Military Cost of Pakistan -- 9.5 The South Asian Roots of Bangladesh -- 9.6 Concluding Remarks -- 10 Raj and Swaraj: Regionalism and Integration in the -- Successor States -- .10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 The Integration of the Princely States -- 10.2.1 India -- 10.2.2 Pakistan -- 10.3 Territorial Redefinition in India and the Emergence of -- Linguistic States -- 10.4 The Centre-Province Balance and Pakistan's Search for -- a Constitution -- 10.5 Regionalism post 1972 in the Residual Pakistan -- 10.6 Concluding Remarks -- 11 The Power Upstream -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Hydro-politics in the Indus Basin -- 11.3 Sharing the Ganges-Brahmaputra Basin -- 11.3.1 Farakka Barrage -- 11.3.2 Floods in Bangladesh -- 11.4 Concluding Remarks -- 12 The Greater Game -- 12.1 Geopolitics -- 12.2 Antagonists and Protagonists since 1947: The Actors -- 12.2.1 The Soviet Union/Russia -- 12.2.2 The USA -- 12.2.3 China, Tibet and the Himalayan War -- 12.2.4 Pakistan and the Afghan War -- 12.2.5 Kashmir -- 12.2.6 Bangladesh -- 12.2.7 India -- 12.2.8 SAARC (The South Asian Associationfor -- Regional Cooperation) -- 12.3 The Politics of Triangles -- 12.4 Concluding Remarks -- PART IV: CONCLUSIONS -- 13 States and Region in South Asia -- 13.1 Introduction: Nature Proposes -- 13.2 Humankind Disposes -- 13.3 States of Development -- 13.4 Nature, Culture and Civilisation -- 13.5 The Politics of Reaction -- References and Bibliography -- Appendix -- Index.

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