Bangladesh, the eastern half of earth’s largest delta, Bengal, is today an independent country of 163 million people. Among the 98% ethnic Bengali population,

Eaton ranges over all the important aspects of that community's history, whether political and social, or cultural and religious...This study must rank among th

This book examines the impact of British education policies on the Muslims of Colonial Bengal. It evaluates the student composition and curriculum of various ed

Bangladesh did not exist as an independent state until 1971. Willem van Schendel's state-of-the-art history navigates the extraordinary twists and turns that cr

This interdisciplinary study in socio-political and intellectual history examines the tension between religious and secular perceptions among the intelligentsia