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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Voices from Bangladesh | |
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| Becoming a Village Photographer | |
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| Wait for a While, Death! | |
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| Telephone Ladies and Social Business | |
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| I Work in a Clothing Factory | |
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| Bengali New Year | |
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| The Fundamentalist | |
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| This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is Our Land | |
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| How They Discriminate Me | |
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| Early Histories | |
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| The Earliest Inscription, Anonymous | |
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| A View from the Sea, Anonymous | |
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| Jackfruits and a Jade Buddha | |
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| Songs of Realization | |
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| A King's Gift of Land, Anonymous | |
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| A Visit to Sylhet | |
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| The Rise of Islam | |
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| Poor and Rich in Mughal Bengal | |
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| Washed Ashore | |
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| Origin of the Sak in Bangladesh | |
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| Mahua and Naderchand Fall in Love | |
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| The Path That Leads to You | |
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| Colonial Encounters | |
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| A Tax Rebellion in Rangpur | |
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| Making Sense of Hill People | |
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| Rhinos among the Ruins | |
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| A Woman Teaches Herself to Read | |
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| What Is Lalon's Faith? | |
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| Blue Devil | |
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| Fundamentalist Reform and the Rural Response | |
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| Wage Holy War-or Leave! | |
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| Brahmos: Rebels against Tradition | |
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| Worshipping with Cannabis | |
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| Hill or Plough Cultivation? | |
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| The Postmaster | |
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| Sultana's Dream | |
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| The Other Bank of the River | |
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| "The Muhammadan Community," A. K. Fazlul Huq | |
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| An Elder Brother's Duty | |
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| Women's Hunger for Education | |
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| The Field of the Embroidered Quilt | |
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| Terror for the Nation, Anonymous | |
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| The Cultural Mix of Old Dhaka | |
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| Messages of Equality and Love | |
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| The Great Famine Strikes the Land | |
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| Pakistan as a Peasant Utopia | |
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| Partition and Pakistan | |
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| Creating an International Border | |
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| Joy, Hope and Fear at Independence | |
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| Where Is the Border?, Indian and Pakistani Officials | |
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| Teenage Migrant | |
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| Establishing the Communist Party of Pakistan | |
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| Broken Bengal | |
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| The Pakistan Experiment and the Language Issue | |
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| A Vernacular Elite | |
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| East and West Pakistan: Economic Divergence | |
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| Modern Lifestyles, Anonymous | |
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| Architectural Masterpiece in Dhaka | |
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| Lake Kaptai | |
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| What Do I Pay My Cook? | |
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| The Garo Exodus of 1964 | |
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| Elusive Villages | |
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| Effects of the India-Pakistan War of 1965 | |
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| Six Points towards a Federation | |
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| This Time the Struggle Is for Our Independence! | |
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| War and Independence | |
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| The Declaration of Independence (25-26 March 1971) | |
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| A Radio Message from Kalurghat (27 March 1971) | |
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| Mujibnagar: Proclaiming a New Country (17 April 1971), The Elected Representatives of the People of Bangladesh | |
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| Operation Searchlight | |
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| I Was Just a Kid Then | |
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| A Telegram and a Phone Call | |
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| From Counter-Insurgency to Defeat | |
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| A Father's Letter to His Daughter | |
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| Powdered Pepper | |
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| A Raja's Protection | |
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| A Razakar Oath and Diploma, Anonymous | |
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| To the People of West Pakistan | |
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| A Missionary Family in the War | |
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| The Diary's Final Pages | |
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| The Jagannath College Concentration Camp | |
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| Stranded Pakistanis ("Biharis") | |
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| Party over State | |
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| Dilemmas of Nationhood | |
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| What Makes Us a Nation? | |
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| Perceptions of Cultural Identity | |
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| Creating a Symbol of the Nation | |
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| Suppressing Student Protests in Dhaka | |
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| The Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord (1997) | |
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| Gender, Ethnicity, and the Nation | |
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| The Two Meanings of "Bangladeshi," | |
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| Secularism as Religious Tolerance | |
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| The Tablighi Jama'at | |
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| Islamist Women Activists Discuss Jihad | |
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| The Nation and the Military | |
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| Amending the Constitution | |
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| The Bengali Sense of Victimhood | |
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| Contemporary Culture | |
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| The Raw, Frank, Funny Eid Parade | |
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| A Visionary of Rural Beauty | |
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| A Dancer's Mission | |
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| Preferences | |
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| The Adventure of Editing a Magazine | |
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| The Short-Film Movement | |
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| Ilish in Mustard Sauce | |
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| Rickshaw Art | |
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| Three National Festivals | |
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| Wangala, Christmas, Pre-Christmas | |
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| Songs for an Endangered Homeland | |
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| Oh, Sad One, Do Not Lament! | |
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| The Development Gaze | |
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| From Poverty to Progress? | |
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| Being a Development "Expert," Brigitte Erler | |
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| NGOS-Modern Landlords with a Global Vision | |
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| Rich-Peasant Resistance to Development Organizations | |
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| The Birth of a Megacity | |
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| The Wealthiest People of Dhaka City | |
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| A Girl's Life: Work and School | |
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| Messages of Development | |
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| Migrants in Barisal | |
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| A Day at the Hospital | |
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| The Children of Katni | |
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| You Have 30 Minutes to Evacuate | |
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| How They Are Developing Us | |
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| Poverty, Gender, and Shrimps | |
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| The Happiest City in the World, Harry | |
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| Wherever the Forest Department Is, There Is No Forest | |
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| Bangladesh beyond Borders | |
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| Dispersing Partition Refugees in India | |
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| The Nellie Massacre | |
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| Operation Pushback | |
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| Snake Charmers in Limbo | |
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| The Green Passport | |
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| Fast-Footed Sylhetis | |
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| Sending Money Home | |
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| Bangladeshi Activists in London | |
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| A Lungi with a Zip! | |
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| The Concert for Bangladesh | |
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| Displaying Statehood | |
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| UN Peacekeepers from Bangladesh | |
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| Garment Workers' Rights, Clean Clothes Campaign | |
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| International Mother Language Day, UNESCO | |
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| Grameen in Russia, Staff correspondent, The Daily Star | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources | |
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| Index | |