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Pakistan As A Peasant Utopia: The Communalization Of Class Politics In East Bengal, 1920-1947

By Taj Ul-islam Hashmi
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By Taj Ul-islam Hashmi
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"During a substantial stay in some East Bengal villages in the summer

of 1971, when East Pakistan was in the traumatic process of being

transformed into Bangladesh, it first dawned upon me that peasants

were not stupid, devoid of political consciousness. Discussions with

different types of peasants revealed that at least the upper echelons

were aware of the implications of the liberation struggle for

Bangladesh and the superpower involvement in it. Richard Nixon and

Indira Gandhi were familiar nam...

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