Bangladesh’s Job-Quota Protests: A Mutiny Rooted In History? – OpEd
Multiple assumptions emerged from the furious anti-job quota protests that recently catapulted Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina (Hasina) to her
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Author: Dr. Mohammad Rashiduzzaman
Dr. Mohammad Rashiduzzaman is a retired academic and he writes from Glassboro, NJ, USA. Part of this narrative draws from his previous works: IDENTITY OF A MUSLIM FAMILY IN COLONIAL BENGAL: Between Memories and History, Peter Lang, NYC, 2021 and PARTIES AND POLITICS IN EAST PAKISTAN 1947-71: Political Inheritances of Bangladesh (publication expected later in 2024 by Peter Lang).
Articles by Dr. Mohammad Rashiduzzaman :
Between Deligitimization Of Dissent Now And Espousing The Oppositions In The Yore: Is The Awami League Dividing Against Itself? – OpEd
When I published “The Awami League in the Political Development of Pakistan,” in Asian Survey, University of California Press, July
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The BNP-Led Opposition In Bangladesh: Need A Paradigm Reset? – OpEd
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the country’s largest opposition party, has recently overhauled its important committees which drew a bit
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Envisioning Bangladesh History: A Palimpsest Or A Chiseled Stone? – OpEd
Bangladesh history has become a partisan battleground of narratives and counter-narratives, but this paper is too short to go into
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The 1947 Bengal Partition: Parallelling Grassroots Memories With Historiography? – OpEd
This narrative swirls between the mainstream historiography of the 1947 Bengal Partition and the reminiscences of the grassroots Hindu-Muslim encounters
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Revisting The 1947 Partition: The Grassroots Heartbeats In The Twilight Of Colonial Bengal? – OpEd
A band of chroniclers periodically challenge who got what and who did what immediately before and after the 1947 division
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