TY - JOUR
AU - Iqbal, Iftekhar
AB - Comparative/World/Transnational 1661 Bengal were external. Or, were there internal impulses ation of Bangladesh challenges both these national and affecting the history of the Bay as well? global forms of teleology and offers a narrative of con- The book’s strongest section is the portrayal of the tingent creation: “The inevitability thesis—whether in vicissitudes of commercial economy, cultural life, and its strong or milder formulations—does not really the politics in the Bay’s coastal regions and port cities wash,” Raghavan asserts (p. 8). The uncertain trajec- from the 1920s to the 1970s. Major shifts in the twen- tory is set against an array of reluctance about Ban- tieth-century history of the Bay of Bengal came with the gladesh on the part of the superpowers and some global abolition of indenture, the economic depression in the leaders during the conflict. Raghavan argues that the late 1920s, and World War II, when Japanese forces United States eventually became more anxious to save briefly eclipsed the British presence there. The end of West Pakistan from a potential Indian invasion than to the war saw a sudden emptying out of the Bay with the keep Pakistan united, almost consigning East Pakistan waning of the fortunes of 
TI - Srinath Raghavan. 1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh.
JF - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1093/ahr/119.5.1661
DA - 2014-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/srinath-raghavan-1971-a-global-history-of-the-creation-of-bangladesh-sHwDI8udMq
SP - 1661
EP - 1662
VL - 119
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
ER -