Rewriting Bangladesh Identity: A Counter-Hegemonic Voice? – OpEd
Nobel Laureate Dr. Mohammad Yunus’(Yunus) interim regime took over soon after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina (Hasina) resigned and fled to
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Author: Dr. Mohammad Rashiduzzaman
Mohammad Rashiduzzaman is a retired academic and Professor Emeritus in Political Science at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey, USA. He is amongst the known scholars who periodically writes on the politics of South Asia. Part of his narrative draws from his previous books entitled, Identity of a Muslim Family in Colonial Bengal: Between History and Memory (Peter Lang: New York, 2021) and Parties and Politics in East Pakistan, 1947-71: The Political Inheritances of Bangladesh ( New York: Peter Lang, 2025). He is the author of the following books: 1)The Central Legislature in British India, 1921-47 (New Edition, New York: Peter Lang, 2019); 2) Politics and Administration in the Local Councils—A Study of Union and District Councils in East Pakistan (Dhaka: Oxford University Press, 1968); 3) Pakistan: A Study of Government and Politics ( Dhaka: Ideal Library, 1967); and 4) Politics and Government in the New World (Iowa: Kendal/Hunt Publishing Company, 1993). Dr M. Rashiduzzaman's research papers appeared in several journals including the Asian Survey, Pacific Affairs, Current History, Contemporary South Asia and the Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.
Articles by Dr. Mohammad Rashiduzzaman :
‘Handcuffed To History’: Hasina’s Downfall, Modi’s Stunning Loss – OpEd
Ever since prime minister Sheikh Hasina precipitously fell from power on August 5, 2024, the dynamics between India and Bangladesh
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Bangladesh After Hasina: An Ideological Rebranding? – OpEd
Since Bangladesh’s interim regime removed the portraits of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (Mujib, Bangabandhu/father of the nation) from the Bangladesh president’s
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Post-Hasina Bangladesh: Realigning Parties? – OpEd
Configurations of political parties in Bangladesh now carry multiple drifts—they are still inchoate after a long hiatus under an authoritarian
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Bangladesh History: An Occupied Territory? – OpEd
An uptick of an old fault line—-the protracted Bangladeshi discourse over history has recently stepped up since a spokesperson of
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For A ‘New’ Bangladesh: An Astute Strategic Prism? – OpEd
The sweeping protests in July-August 2024 that ousted Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s (Hasina) authoritarian rule, won the country an
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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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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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