Intimation of Revolution
Global Sixties and the Making of Bangladesh

Studies the rise of Bengali nationalism in East Pakistan in the 1950s and 60s.

Subho Basu (Author)

9781009329873, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 15 June 2023

428 pages
23.6 x 16 x 2.7 cm, 0.66 kg

'A welcome and timely contribution … The global crosswinds of leftist student movements have been an underdeveloped theme in South Asian historiography. In a time of revolution in Bangladesh and war on the subcontinent, we are fortunate to have Subho Basu as an expert guide to the unraveling of East Pakistan and the creation of Bangladesh as a nation-state.' William M. Crane, H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences

Intimation of Revolution studies the rise of Bengali nationalism in East Pakistan in the 1950s and 60s by showcasing the interactions between global politics and local social and economic developments. It argues that the revolution of 1969 and the national liberation struggle of 1971 were informed by the 'global sixties' that transformed the political landscape of Pakistan and facilitated the birth of Bangladesh. Departing from the typical understanding of the Bangladesh as a product of Indo-Pakistani diplomatic and military rivalry, it narrates how Bengali nationalists resisted the processes of internal colonization by the Pakistani military bureaucratic regime to fashion their own nation. It details how this process of resistance and nation-formation drew on contemporaneous decolonization movements in Asia, Africa, and Latin America while also being shaped by the Cold War rivalries between the USA, USSR, and China.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Nationality Question: Territoriality, Birth of East Pakistan and New Politics of Resistance
2. Global Politics and Local Alignment: Cold War Bureaucratic -Military Alliance and Popular Resistance
3. Language, Culture and the Global Sixties in East Pakistan
4. Praetorian Guards, Capitalist Modernization and Early Global Sixties: Global Cold War Empire and the Colonization of East Pakistan
5. For Whom the Bell Tolls: Popular Resistance and the Beginning of Global Sixties in Pakistan
6. Global Sixties and the Coming of Revolution
Conclusion
Bibliography.

Subject Areas: Regional government policies [JPRB], Regional government [JPR], Politics & government [JP], Society & social sciences [J], Regional & national history [HBJ], History [HB]